Fest Family History
- Fest Name Meaning
- German: nickname for a strong, steadfast person, from Middle High German veste ‘strong’, ‘firm’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 52,743 Historical Documents with Fest on Ancestry
- 18,167 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,185 Census and Voter Lists
- 24,796 Military Records
- 1,272 Immigration Records
- 4,323 Member Trees
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Number of Fest families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fest families
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1 1 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Fest census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Fest census records
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