Schaffer Family History
- Schaffer Name Meaning
- German: occupational name for a steward or bailiff, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schaffen ‘to manage’. South German (Schäffer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schaefer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 631,575 Historical Documents with Schaffer on Ancestry
- 279,700 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 109,662 Census and Voter Lists
- 32,491 Military Records
- 20,575 Immigration Records
- 189,147 Member Trees
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Number of Schaffer families
 26 - 50  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Schaffer families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Schaffer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Schaffer census records
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