Laufer Family History
Laufer Name Meaning
German: habitational name for someone from a place called
Lauf.German (Läufer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic):
occupational name for a messenger or a nickname for a fast runner,
from an agent derivative of Middle High German loufen, German
laufen ‘to run’.English: variant of
Laver.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Laufer
Name Distribution of Laufer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Laufer families
 47 - 92  16 - 46 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Laufer families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Laufer families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Laufer census records
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Laufer Family Origin
Laufer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Laufer
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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
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Laufer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Laufer census records
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Laufer Civil War Service Records
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