Press Family History
- Press Name Meaning
- English: variant of Priest. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for someone who ironed clothes, from Yiddish pres ‘flat iron’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 241,516 Historical Documents with Press on Ancestry
- 108,751 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 49,287 Census and Voter Lists
- 32,992 Military Records
- 8,474 Immigration Records
- 42,012 Member Trees
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Number of Press families
 103 - 204  35 - 102 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Press families
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13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Press 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 Press 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 Press 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
Press census records
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