Bar Family History
- Bar Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber (see Baer). Variant spelling of German Bahr or Baer. Polish and Czech: from a short form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (Polish Bartlomiej, Czech Bartolomej; see Bartholomew). Hungarian (Bár): from the old secular personal name Bár.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 782,138 Historical Documents with Bar on Ancestry
- 183,540 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,220 Census and Voter Lists
- 40,072 Military Records
- 8,662 Immigration Records
- 530,644 Member Trees
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Number of Bar families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bar families
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19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bar 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
Bar census records
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