Heit Family History
- Heit Name Meaning
- from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with heid ‘heath’ as the first element, or derived from Old High German heit ‘specimen’, ‘being’, ‘character’. habitational name from a place so named, near Bremervörde in Lower Saxony.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,564 Historical Documents with Heit on Ancestry
- 12,058 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,403 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,606 Military Records
- 1,420 Immigration Records
- 7,077 Member Trees
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Number of Heit families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Heit 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
Heit census records
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