Adams Family History
- Adams Name Meaning
- English (very common in England, especially in the south Midlands, and in Wales) and German (especially northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam. In the U.S. this form has absorbed many patronymics and other derivatives of Adam in languages other than English. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,514,644 Historical Documents with Adams on Ancestry
- 4,746,305 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,824,192 Census and Voter Lists
- 586,008 Military Records
- 250,784 Immigration Records
- 8,107,355 Member Trees
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Number of Adams families
 3,745 - 7,487  1,249 - 3,744 |
 1 - 1,248  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Adams families
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479 - 956 160 - 478 |
1 - 159 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Adams census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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