Hering Family History
- Hering Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hærinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a herring or a metonymic occupational name for a fish seller. In some cases the Jewish surname is ornamental. English: variant spelling of Herring.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 196,463 Historical Documents with Hering on Ancestry
- 110,684 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,913 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,031 Military Records
- 6,355 Immigration Records
- 48,480 Member Trees
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Number of Hering families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hering families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hering 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
Hering census records
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