Tveit Family History
- Tveit Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of about 60 farmsteads, mainly in western Norway and Agder, so named from Old Norse þveit ‘small field on a hillside’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,772 Historical Documents with Tveit on Ancestry
- 3,872 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 848 Census and Voter Lists
- 416 Military Records
- 1,583 Immigration Records
- 12,053 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tveit census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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