Kahre Family History
- Kahre Name Meaning
- German: of uncertain origin; perhaps a topographic name, either from the South German dialect word kar ‘bowl-shaped valley’, (from Middle High German kar ‘bowl’, ‘basket’, ‘vessel’), or alternatively from kar ‘(sharp) turn or bend in the road’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,782 Historical Documents with Kahre on Ancestry
- 7,710 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,197 Census and Voter Lists
- 413 Military Records
- 302 Immigration Records
- 7,160 Member Trees
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Number of Kahre families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 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
Kahre census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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