Forti Family History
- Forti Name Meaning
- Italian: patronymic from the personal name Forte, a continuation of Late Latin Fortis (fortis ‘brave’, ‘strong’), a name chosen by early Christians as a symbol of moral strength and steadfastness.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,986 Historical Documents with Forti on Ancestry
- 5,358 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,734 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,538 Military Records
- 1,738 Immigration Records
- 2,618 Member Trees
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Number of Forti families
 11 - 20  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
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
Forti census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Forti families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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and even physical descriptions.
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