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landsman Name Meaning and History

German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Lander 1, from Middle High German, Middle Dutch lantsman, German Landsmann or Yiddish landsman ‘countryman’ or ‘fellow countryman’.

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Distribution of landsman Families in the US in 1920
Number of landsman families
 37-72
 13-36
 1-12
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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