Bjornsen Family History
- Bjornsen Name Meaning
- Danish and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Bjørn (see Bjorn).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 56,127 Historical Documents with Bjornsen on Ancestry
- 28,664 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,148 Census and Voter Lists
- 246 Military Records
- 2,052 Immigration Records
- 24,017 Member Trees
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Number of Bjornsen families
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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
Bjornsen 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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You can find out when most of the Bjornsen families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bjornsen census records
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