Fankhauser Family History
- Fankhauser Name Meaning
- South German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone living by a Fanghaus, literally ‘capture house’, a building or enclosure in which live animals captured by hunting were kept.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 49,481 Historical Documents with Fankhauser on Ancestry
- 9,515 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,030 Census and Voter Lists
- 911 Military Records
- 615 Immigration Records
- 32,410 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Fankhauser census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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