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The schreiber Surname

schreiber Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a clerk, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schriben ‘to write’ (via Old High German from Latin scribere).
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Schreiber, Yiddish shrayber ‘writer’, adopted as a translation of Hebrew Soffer ‘scribe’.

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

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Distribution of schreiber Families in the US in 1920
Number of schreiber families
 175-348
 59-174		 1-58
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 197 - Messages: 363
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Schreibers TOM WETHINGTON 6
Walter Richard Schreiber, Jr. age 57, KENNELLYMARKA 0
Schreiber WGF 3
Schreiber/Schriver in Luzerne Co, PA Tom Carroll 5
Lorenz Schreiber of Alsenborn, Germany shrvrfamly 15
Schreiber Relatives betreff1 4
Paul Schreiber son of Adolph, Funeral April 17, 1901 Idaho Eellitta 0
Edna Schreiber aamanda_88 2
Schreiber coble76 0
Oswald Oscar Schreiber TerryBurklow 0
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