Faix Family History
- Faix Name Meaning
- French: metonymic occupational name for a gatherer or seller of firewood, from Old French fais ‘bundle of firewood’. See also Fagot. Czech and Slovak: from the personal name Veits, from the Latin personal name Vitus. German: variant spelling of Feix (see Veit).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,809 Historical Documents with Faix on Ancestry
- 6,363 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,204 Census and Voter Lists
- 405 Military Records
- 317 Immigration Records
- 1,520 Member Trees
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Number of Faix families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Faix census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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