Ohmer Family History
- Ohmer Name Meaning
- from an agent derivative of Middle High German ame, ome ‘standard measure’, hence an occupational name for someone who checked and sealed weights and measures. (Öhmer): topographic name (mostly Swiss), for someone who lived or owned a farm in a wider, flat part of a valley, a variant of Ebner. status or occupational name from Middle High German ebenære ‘arbitrator’, ‘judge’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 21,554 Historical Documents with Ohmer on Ancestry
- 8,157 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,426 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,279 Military Records
- 600 Immigration Records
- 9,092 Member Trees
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Number of Ohmer families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
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
Ohmer census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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