Oesterling Family History
- Oesterling Name Meaning
- German (Östeling): nickname from Middle Low German osterlinc ‘someone from the Baltic Sea’ or ‘someone from the East’, and later ‘citizen of a city belonging to the Hanseatic League’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 19,172 Historical Documents with Oesterling on Ancestry
- 9,472 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,532 Census and Voter Lists
- 483 Military Records
- 403 Immigration Records
- 7,282 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Oesterling 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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