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gegner Name Meaning and History

German: topographic name for someone who lived ‘across the way’, but also a nickname for a hostile person, from Middle Low German gegenere ‘enemy’.

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

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Distribution of gegner Families in the US in 1920
Number of gegner families
 9-16
 4-8
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 10 - Messages: 41
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Gegner of Germany Iowa jobethfjell 9
Georg Gegner & Katharina Jung, Cservenka DDGUT466 0
Gegner's from Liebling Austra-Hungary BSolooki 2
Fred Gegner, Oskaloosa, IA WWI IrishStock 2
Gegner family from Ohio Ky Sandy Wilson 20
Gegners of Oskaloosa Iowa heidithompson33 0
Gegners-Duveneck connection Sandy 1
Herbert M. Burlew Carolyn 0
Lillian Gegner Carolyn 0
Johann Daniel Gegner Baltimore, Md. r_hromada 0
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