Grimm Family History
- Grimm Name Meaning
- nickname for a dour and forbidding individual, from Old High German grim ‘stern’, ‘severe’. from a Germanic personal name from grima ‘mask’, ‘helmet’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 746,669 Historical Documents with Grimm on Ancestry
- 368,005 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 78,483 Census and Voter Lists
- 38,500 Military Records
- 15,047 Immigration Records
- 246,634 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Grimm families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Grimm families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Grimm census records
You can see how Grimm families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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
Click on a place to view Grimm immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Grimm families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the Canadian Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Grimm immigration records
You can find out when most of the Grimm 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
Grimm census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Grimm ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Grimms fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×