Schiff Family History
- Schiff Name Meaning
- German: from Middle High German schif ‘ship’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a sailor, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a ship. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name or habitational name (see 1 above), from German Schiff ‘ship’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 102,142 Historical Documents with Schiff on Ancestry
- 44,863 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,533 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,469 Military Records
- 10,832 Immigration Records
- 17,445 Member Trees
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Number of Schiff families
 23 - 44  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Schiff 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
Schiff census records
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