Kotar Family History
- Kotar Name Meaning
- topographic or status name for someone who lived in a cottage, from Middle High German kote ‘cottage’, formed with an agent noun suffix -ar. topographic name for someone who lived in a corner of a valley or plain, from kot ‘corner’, or a habitational name for someone from any of the numerous places called Kot, named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,538 Historical Documents with Kotar on Ancestry
- 1,725 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 688 Census and Voter Lists
- 216 Military Records
- 471 Immigration Records
- 438 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Kotar census records
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