Garb Family History
- Garb Name Meaning
- German: occupational name for a tanner, from the dialect word garb, Middle High German garwe. See also Gerber. German: from a short form of a personal name formed with Old High German ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’. Compare Gerhardt. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): descriptive nickname from Polish garb ‘hump’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,417 Historical Documents with Garb on Ancestry
- 4,664 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,713 Census and Voter Lists
- 770 Military Records
- 836 Immigration Records
- 1,434 Member Trees
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Number of Garb families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Garb census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Garb census records
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