Bednar Family History
- Bednar Name Meaning
- Czech (Bednár), Slovak (Bednár), and Slovene: occupational name meaning ‘cooper’. Compare Bodnar. Americanized spelling of Polish Bednarz ‘cooper’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 81,354 Historical Documents with Bednar on Ancestry
- 49,191 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,550 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,846 Military Records
- 3,663 Immigration Records
- 16,104 Member Trees
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Number of Bednar families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bednar 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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