Schweiger Family History
- Schweiger Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a somewhat taciturn or ‘deep’ person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schwigen, German schweigen, Yiddish shvaygn ‘to be silent’. German: variant of Schwaiger.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 88,780 Historical Documents with Schweiger on Ancestry
- 49,781 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,955 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,922 Military Records
- 3,543 Immigration Records
- 15,579 Member Trees
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Number of Schweiger families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Schweiger families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Schweiger 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
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