Garn Family History
- Garn Name Meaning
- metonymic occupational name for a producer of or dealer in yarn, Middle High German garn. (in eastern Germany) from Slavic gorn- ‘mountain dweller’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 107,855 Historical Documents with Garn on Ancestry
- 21,978 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,151 Census and Voter Lists
- 21,481 Military Records
- 986 Immigration Records
- 54,259 Member Trees
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Number of Garn families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garn families
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2 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Garn 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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