Vest Family History
- Vest Name Meaning
- German: variant of Fest. Probably an altered spelling of West.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 489,630 Historical Documents with Vest on Ancestry
- 109,640 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 42,984 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,383 Military Records
- 2,069 Immigration Records
- 322,554 Member Trees
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Number of Vest families
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Vest census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Vest families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Vest families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Vest census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Vest ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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