Wirta Family History
- Wirta Name Meaning
- Finnish (Virta): from virta ‘stream’, used as a topographic name, also as a soldier’s name in the 17th century. Also adopted as an ornamental name, especially in western and southern Finland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,643 Historical Documents with Wirta on Ancestry
- 2,796 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,387 Census and Voter Lists
- 630 Military Records
- 979 Immigration Records
- 851 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wirta census records
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