Car Family History
- Car Name Meaning
- Croatian, Serbian, and eastern Slovenian: ironic nickname for an autocratic person, from car ‘tsar’. Slovenian (Car): see Char. Perhaps also French: metonymic occupational name for cartwright or carter, from char ‘wagon’, ‘cart’ (Latin carrus).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 180,483 Historical Documents with Car on Ancestry
- 114,663 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,200 Census and Voter Lists
- 35,586 Military Records
- 4,750 Immigration Records
- 6,284 Member Trees
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Number of Car families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Car families
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15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Car 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
Car census records
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