Overcast Family History
- Overcast Name Meaning
- Probably an Americanized spelling of German Obergasser, a topographic name from ober ‘upper’, ‘above’ + Gasse ‘side street’, ‘lane’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,204 Historical Documents with Overcast on Ancestry
- 3,103 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,692 Census and Voter Lists
- 675 Military Records
- 22 Immigration Records
- 6,712 Member Trees
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Number of Overcast families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
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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
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
- 10
- Union
- 5
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