Kantor Family History
- Kantor Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor, an official of a synagogue whose duty is to sing liturgical music and leads prayers, from Latin cantor ‘singer’, a derivative of canere ‘to sing’. German, Czech, Slovak, and northern Croatian; Hungarian (Kántor): occupational name for a choirmaster or village schoolmaster.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 101,791 Historical Documents with Kantor on Ancestry
- 67,291 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,120 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,277 Military Records
- 8,634 Immigration Records
- 9,469 Member Trees
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Number of Kantor families
 4 - 5  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Kantor census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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