Shirts Family History
- Shirts Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of German Schertz. Possibly a variant of English Shirt, a topographic name for someone who lived on a detached piece of land, Middle English shurte, from Old English scyrte ‘skirt’, ‘cut off piece’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 37,539 Historical Documents with Shirts on Ancestry
- 9,722 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,518 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,723 Military Records
- 119 Immigration Records
- 22,457 Member Trees
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Number of Shirts families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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