Geiger Family History
- Geiger Name Meaning
- South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a violin player or maker, Middle High German giger (an agent derivative of gige ‘violin’), German Geiger.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 920,077 Historical Documents with Geiger on Ancestry
- 507,417 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 90,866 Census and Voter Lists
- 40,581 Military Records
- 18,122 Immigration Records
- 263,091 Member Trees
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Number of Geiger families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geiger families
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Geiger 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
Geiger census records
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