Gatz Family History
- Gatz Name Meaning
- German: from Gato, a short form of an old personal name formed with the same root as Middle High German gate ‘companion’. German (in eastern Germany): possibly from the Slavic personal name Gaczko. German: habitational name from a place so named in Pomerania. Americanized spelling of Ukrainian and Polish Gac.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 41,864 Historical Documents with Gatz on Ancestry
- 18,522 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,731 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,213 Military Records
- 1,835 Immigration Records
- 11,563 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gatz 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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