Buchalter Family History
- Buchalter Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Buchhalter ‘bookkeeper’, probably an occupational name for someone who kept the books of the Jewish community. Respelling of South German Buchhalter, a topographic name for someone who lived on a beech-covered slope, from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’ + halde ‘slope’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,323 Historical Documents with Buchalter on Ancestry
- 3,223 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,083 Census and Voter Lists
- 468 Military Records
- 706 Immigration Records
- 1,843 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Buchalter census records
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