Bier Family History
- Bier Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German bier ‘beer’, German Bier, Yiddish bir, a metonymic occupational name for a brewer of beer or a tavern owner, or in some cases perhaps a nickname for a beer drinker. South German: from the short form of a personal name formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’. Northern English and Scottish: variant of Byers.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 116,793 Historical Documents with Bier on Ancestry
- 49,615 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 16,012 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,281 Military Records
- 4,717 Immigration Records
- 41,168 Member Trees
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Number of Bier families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bier families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bier families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bier 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
Bier census records
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- All Bier
- 81
- Confederate
- 13
- Union
- 68
from the Civil War Service Records
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