Benis Family History
- Benis Name Meaning
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Benye (a pet form of Beniamin; see Bien, Benjamin) + the Yiddish possessive and patronymic suffix -s. Latvian: from a shortened form of the personal name Benedikts (see Benedict).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,797 Historical Documents with Benis on Ancestry
- 8,074 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,070 Census and Voter Lists
- 403 Military Records
- 871 Immigration Records
- 1,379 Member Trees
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Number of Benis families
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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