Banta Family History
- Banta Name Meaning
- Frisian: probably a habitational name for someone from Bant, in the 17th century an island in Friesland, now the village north of Emmeloord in the Noordoostpolder.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 320,951 Historical Documents with Banta on Ancestry
- 58,875 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 32,603 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,290 Military Records
- 2,228 Immigration Records
- 218,955 Member Trees
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Number of Banta families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Banta families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Banta census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Banta census records
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