Basso Family History
- Basso Name Meaning
- Italian: in some cases from Bassus, a family name of the Republican period, from Latin bassus ‘thickset’, i.e. wide as opposed to tall; in others from a medieval nickname Basso meaning ‘short’, ‘low’, a derivative of bassus. Catalan: variant of Besso.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 65,619 Historical Documents with Basso on Ancestry
- 28,141 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,588 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,284 Military Records
- 8,506 Immigration Records
- 13,100 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Basso census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Basso census records
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