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yankee Name Meaning and History

Americanized spelling of Dutch or North German Janke, Jahnke, or Jenke.

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

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

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Distribution of yankee Families in the US in 1920
Number of yankee families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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