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Graff Name Meaning
German (also Gräff), Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic):
variant of Graf.English: metonymic occupational name
for a clerk or scribe, from Anglo-Norman French grafe ‘quill’,
‘pen’ (a derivative of grafer ‘to write’, Late Latin
grafare, from Greek graphein).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Graff
Name Distribution of Graff Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Graff families
 184 - 365  62 - 183 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Graff families
|
23 - 43 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Graff census records
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Graff Family Origin
Graff Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Graff families immigrated
to the United States.
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Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Graff
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Graff Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Graff census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Graff ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Graff Civil War Service Records
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