Mostad Family History
- Mostad Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named with a personal name or Old Norse mór ‘moor’, ‘sandy plain’ + Old Norse staðir, plural of staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,913 Historical Documents with Mostad on Ancestry
- 1,995 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 685 Census and Voter Lists
- 159 Military Records
- 420 Immigration Records
- 1,654 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mostad census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Mostad surname lived over the years.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Mostad families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Mostad families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Mostad
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
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