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Foster Name Meaning
English: reduced form of Forster.English: nickname
from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English
fostre, a derivative of fostrian ‘to nourish or
rear’).Jewish: probably an Americanized form of one or
more like-sounding Jewish surnames, such as Forster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Foster
Name Distribution of Foster Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Foster families
 1,153 - 2,304  385 - 1,152 |
 1 - 384  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Foster families
|
4,087 - 8,172 1,363 - 4,086 |
1 - 1,362 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Foster families
|
198 - 393 67 - 197 |
1 - 66 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Foster census records
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Foster Family Origin
Foster Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Foster
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Foster Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Foster census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Foster ancestors, such as occupation.
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Foster Civil War Service Records
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