Ulmer Family History
- Ulmer Name Meaning
- habitational name for someone from the city of Ulm. The placename is from the root uel, an unattested word meaning ‘turn’, ‘wind’, ‘roll’ or from el- or ol- ‘flow’, a reference in either case to the influx of the Blan river into the Danube. from the Germanic personal name Odolmar, composed of the elements odal ‘inherited property’ + mar ‘famous’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 337,565 Historical Documents with Ulmer on Ancestry
- 137,465 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 39,061 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,706 Military Records
- 5,667 Immigration Records
- 144,666 Member Trees
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Number of Ulmer families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ulmer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Ulmer census records
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