Roberts Family History
- Roberts Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from the personal name Robert. This surname is very frequent in Wales and west central England. It is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,572,585 Historical Documents with Roberts on Ancestry
- 5,663,768 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,506,478 Census and Voter Lists
- 533,431 Military Records
- 608,403 Immigration Records
- 5,260,505 Member Trees
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Number of Roberts families
 7,914 - 15,825  2,639 - 7,913 |
 1 - 2,638  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roberts families
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198 - 394 67 - 197 |
1 - 66 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Roberts 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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