Fass Family History
- Fass Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German faz, German Fass ‘cask’, ‘keg’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of casks and kegs, or a nickname for someone as rotund as a barrel. German: variant of Fasse, Faas.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,798 Historical Documents with Fass on Ancestry
- 25,347 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,962 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,066 Military Records
- 3,193 Immigration Records
- 6,230 Member Trees
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Number of Fass families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Fass 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
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