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elster Name Meaning and History

German: habitational name from any of several places so named. This is also the name of a river in Saxony, which in some cases may have given rise to the family name.

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The elster name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the elster family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of elster Families in the US in 1920
Number of elster families
 20-38
 7-19
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 14 - Messages: 26
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Peter Elster b. 1866 Cnielsen7176 0
Elsters in UK Marilyn Louise Elster 1
Searching for Elster family Douglas R Dexheimer 0
Elsroth/Elstroth TElsroth 0
Justus Elster of NY and Clark Co, OH Ann Turner 0
Elsteroth or Elstroth David Elsteroth 2
Elster RKehren 0
Julie Amalie Elster from Germany >Rochester NY daisymaple 0
Lorilla Elster or Elstaire Ed Scheumann 0
Searching for Elster blpthr 0
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