The ratner Surname
ratner Name Meaning and History
- habitational name for someone from Ratno in Ukraine or Rathenau near Brandenburg.
- occupational name from Yiddish rat ‘council’ + the agent suffix -ner.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 12 - Messages: 64
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Who are our ancestors | Marcelo Ratner | 27 |
| Ratner- Last Name.... Read this..... re Ellis Island Records | Brett Lieberman | 11 |
| one Ratner family tree | Len Ratner | 12 |
| Joseph Ratner (1901-1979) | James Downhour | 1 |
| RATNER - Texas 1880? - 1900; Illinois 1900 - present |
 MJ_Leahy
| 1 |
| Alice Ratner obit from NY 2002 |
LauraRivers518
| 0 |
| Elliot Allen Ratner Obit - 2004 Pa. / son of Harry |
S_Ihrman
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| Ratner from Kiev, Russia @ 1865 | Helen Ratner Gould | 0 |
| Eva RATNER, b. 1858-1859, living in Brooklyn 1929 | Mary Thiele Fobian | 0 |
| Ratny, Ratner, Zelva, Slonim, Belroussia pre 1904.to 1920 | Brett Lieberman | 0 |
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