Berg Family History
- Berg Name Meaning
- German or Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill or mountain, from Middle High German berc. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe. Scandinavian: habitational name for someone who lived at a farmstead named with Old Norse bjarg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. In Sweden this is commonly found as an element of ornamental names. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’, or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Schönberg (see Schoenberg) and Goldberg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,528,073 Historical Documents with Berg on Ancestry
- 1,470,395 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 285,077 Census and Voter Lists
- 97,642 Military Records
- 120,841 Immigration Records
- 554,118 Member Trees
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Number of Berg families
 103 - 204  35 - 102 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Berg families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Berg 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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