Ganz Family History
- Ganz Name Meaning
- German and Swiss German: variant of Gans ‘goose’. German: from a short form of the Germanic personal name Ganso, a cognate of modern German ganz ‘whole’, ‘all’. German: possibly also from an altered form, under Russian influence, of the personal name Hans, a short form of Johannes (see John). Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German ganz ‘whole’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 110,501 Historical Documents with Ganz on Ancestry
- 40,937 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,843 Census and Voter Lists
- 41,771 Military Records
- 5,709 Immigration Records
- 12,241 Member Trees
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Number of Ganz families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Ganz 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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