Fornes Family History
- Fornes Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of the twelve farmsteads so named, from either Old Norse fura ‘pine’ or for ‘foremost’, ‘front’ + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’ (the latter etymology suggests a headland jutting out farther than others near it). Catalan (Fornés): respelling of Forners, either an occupational or a topographic name from the plural of Forner 2.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 23,863 Historical Documents with Fornes on Ancestry
- 10,102 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,887 Census and Voter Lists
- 649 Military Records
- 1,504 Immigration Records
- 8,721 Member Trees
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Number of Fornes families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fornes families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fornes 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
Fornes census records
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- All Fornes
- 11
- Confederate
- 9
- Union
- 2
from the Civil War Service Records
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