Reitan Family History
- Reitan Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in Trøndelag named with the definite plural form of reit, from Old Norse reitr ‘small cultivated field’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,276 Historical Documents with Reitan on Ancestry
- 6,219 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,103 Census and Voter Lists
- 489 Military Records
- 1,154 Immigration Records
- 4,311 Member Trees
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Number of Reitan families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Reitan families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Reitan census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Reitan census records
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