Arber Family History
- Arber Name Meaning
- English: variant of Harber. South German: either from Middle High German arber ‘tree’ (related to Latin arbor), an occupational name for a forester or perhaps a habitational name from some place named with this word, or from Arbihari, a Germanic personal name composed of Old High German arbi ‘inheritance’ + hari ‘army’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 35,881 Historical Documents with Arber on Ancestry
- 12,443 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,744 Census and Voter Lists
- 949 Military Records
- 1,300 Immigration Records
- 11,445 Member Trees
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Number of Arber families
 35 - 67  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Arber 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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