Forst Family History
- Forst Name Meaning
- German: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest or an occupational name for someone who worked in one, from Middle High German forst ‘forest’. Czech (Foršt): from German (see 1).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 87,117 Historical Documents with Forst on Ancestry
- 43,632 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 16,375 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,914 Military Records
- 4,424 Immigration Records
- 15,772 Member Trees
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Number of Forst families
 33 - 64  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Forst families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Forst census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Forst families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Forst families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Forst census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Forst ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Forsts fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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