Hunstad Family History
- Hunstad Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named. The place name is derived either from Old Norse Hunstad, from the personal name Huni + staðir ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’, or from Hundstad, formed with the nickname Hundr, literally ‘dog’ + the same second element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,189 Historical Documents with Hunstad on Ancestry
- 2,690 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 949 Census and Voter Lists
- 136 Military Records
- 172 Immigration Records
- 2,242 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hunstad 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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