Guess Family History
- Guess Name Meaning
- English: probably a variant of Guest. South German (Güss): topographic name for someone who lived near a torrent or on a flood plain, from Middle High German güsse ‘flood’, ‘flooding’. German: variant of Geis.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 253,933 Historical Documents with Guess on Ancestry
- 58,109 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,425 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,895 Military Records
- 1,757 Immigration Records
- 151,747 Member Trees
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Number of Guess families
 41 - 80  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Guess families
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24 - 45 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Guess 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 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Guess
- 232
- Confederate
- 158
- Union
- 74
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