Fante Family History
- Fante Name Meaning
- Northern Italian: from the medieval personal name Fante, from fante ‘child’, ‘youth’, or from a short form of the omen names Bonfante ‘good child’ or Belfante ‘beautiful child’, formed with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,579 Historical Documents with Fante on Ancestry
- 3,673 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,751 Census and Voter Lists
- 197 Military Records
- 565 Immigration Records
- 1,393 Member Trees
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Number of Fante families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Fante 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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