Karg Family History
- Karg Name Meaning
- German: nickname from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’ ‘sly’, ‘tricky’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a mean person, from Yiddish karg(er) ‘stingy’, ‘niggardly’ (from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 67,509 Historical Documents with Karg on Ancestry
- 40,445 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,190 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,837 Military Records
- 1,838 Immigration Records
- 14,199 Member Trees
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Number of Karg families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Karg 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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