Pass Family History
- Pass Name Meaning
- English: from a pet form of the medieval personal name Pascal, which was brought to England from France. German: topographic name from Pass ‘pass’, ‘passage’ (from Middle Low German pas ‘pace’, ‘passage way’, ‘water gauge’). Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name or nickname from Yiddish and Polish pas ‘belt’, ‘girdle’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 286,361 Historical Documents with Pass on Ancestry
- 103,270 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 45,250 Census and Voter Lists
- 22,909 Military Records
- 6,638 Immigration Records
- 108,294 Member Trees
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Number of Pass families
 253 - 503  85 - 252 |
 1 - 84  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pass families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pass census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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 Pass 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 Pass families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Pass census records
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