Garcia Family History
- Garcia Name Meaning
- Spanish (García) and Portuguese: from a medieval personal name of uncertain origin. It is normally found in medieval records in the Latin form Garsea, and may well be of pre-Roman origin, perhaps akin to Basque (h)artz ‘bear’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,950,244 Historical Documents with Garcia on Ancestry
- 13,704,222 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 894,454 Census and Voter Lists
- 112,945 Military Records
- 526,165 Immigration Records
- 712,458 Member Trees
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Number of Garcia families
 63 - 123  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Garcia 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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