Overbey Family History
- Overbey Name Meaning
- Norwegian or Danish: variant of Overby.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 63,330 Historical Documents with Overbey on Ancestry
- 15,636 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,156 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,955 Military Records
- 256 Immigration Records
- 39,327 Member Trees
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Number of Overbey families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Overbey families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Overbey census records
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Overbey census records
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- All Overbey
- 59
- Confederate
- 41
- Union
- 18
from the Civil War Service Records
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