Alf Family History
- Alf Name Meaning
- North German: from a reduced form of Adolf. Scandinavian: from the personal name Alf, a short form of any of several personal names formed with alf ‘elf’ as the first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 23,325 Historical Documents with Alf on Ancestry
- 11,552 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,555 Census and Voter Lists
- 759 Military Records
- 1,264 Immigration Records
- 6,195 Member Trees
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Number of Alf families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Alf families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Alf census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Alf census records
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- All Alf
- 13
- Confederate
- 2
- Union
- 11
from the Civil War Service Records
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