Shecter Family History
- Shecter Name Meaning
- probably an Americanized spelling of Dutch and German Schechter, an occupational name for someone who made shafts for spears and lances, from Middle Low German schacht ‘shaft’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,301 Historical Documents with Shecter on Ancestry
- 1,135 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,325 Census and Voter Lists
- 139 Military Records
- 336 Immigration Records
- 366 Member Trees
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Number of Shecter families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Shecter 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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