Geer Family History
- Geer Name Meaning
- English: variant of Geary 3. North German: from a personal name derived from ger, gar ‘spear’ (see Geary 2). Dutch: reduced form of van den Geer, a topographic name from geer ‘headland’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 547,648 Historical Documents with Geer on Ancestry
- 104,970 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,768 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,115 Military Records
- 4,950 Immigration Records
- 367,845 Member Trees
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Number of Geer families
 62 - 121  21 - 61 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geer families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Geer census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Geer families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Geer families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Geer census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Geer ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Geers fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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