Strand Family History
- Strand Name Meaning
- North German, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, from Middle Low German, Danish, Swedish strand ‘shore’ . In some cases the Swedish name may have been ornamental. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from strand ‘shore’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 339,734 Historical Documents with Strand on Ancestry
- 153,596 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 69,056 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,352 Military Records
- 22,413 Immigration Records
- 83,317 Member Trees
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Number of Strand families
 91 - 180  31 - 90 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Strand families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Strand 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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You can find out when most of the Strand families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Strand census records
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