Kritzer Family History
- Kritzer Name Meaning
- South German: probably an occupational name for a coiner, from krüzer ‘kreutzer’ (the coin), a dialect variant of Kreutzer. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kretzer. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kratzer, from Yiddish kritsn ‘to scratch’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 21,440 Historical Documents with Kritzer on Ancestry
- 9,449 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,603 Census and Voter Lists
- 848 Military Records
- 900 Immigration Records
- 5,640 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Kritzer census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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