Achterberg Family History
- Achterberg Name Meaning
- Dutch and North German: topographic name for someone who lived ‘behind the hill’, from Dutch and Low German achter ‘behind’, ‘in back of’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’. In some cases the Dutch surname is a habitational name from any of various places so named in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 37,290 Historical Documents with Achterberg on Ancestry
- 20,399 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,565 Census and Voter Lists
- 651 Military Records
- 521 Immigration Records
- 13,154 Member Trees
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Number of Achterberg families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Achterberg census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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