Brandis Family History
- Brandis Name Meaning
- Swiss and German: habitational name from a former Brandis castle in Emmental near Bern, Switzerland, or from any of the places so named in Saxony, Germany. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Brandeis.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 34,850 Historical Documents with Brandis on Ancestry
- 13,324 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,829 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,479 Military Records
- 1,261 Immigration Records
- 11,957 Member Trees
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Number of Brandis families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brandis families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brandis families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brandis 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
Brandis census records
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- All Brandis
- 45
- Confederate
- 8
- Union
- 37
from the Civil War Service Records
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