Kofford Family History
- Kofford Name Meaning
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kauffert, an occupational name for a trader, Middle High German koufer, plus excrescent -t.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,119 Historical Documents with Kofford on Ancestry
- 2,275 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,524 Census and Voter Lists
- 277 Military Records
- 59 Immigration Records
- 5,984 Member Trees
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Number of Kofford families
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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
Kofford census records
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kofford census records
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