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goldsmith Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for a worker in gold, a compound of Old English gold ‘gold’ + smið ‘smith’. In North America it is very often an English translation of German or Jewish Goldschmidt.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The goldsmith name in History

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

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Distribution of goldsmith Families in the US in 1920
Number of goldsmith families
 395-787
 132-394		 1-131
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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