Riskin Family History
- Riskin Name Meaning
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the female personal name Riske, a Yiddish pet form derived from the full form Rivke (see Rebecca).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,893 Historical Documents with Riskin on Ancestry
- 2,310 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,970 Census and Voter Lists
- 273 Military Records
- 930 Immigration Records
- 1,410 Member Trees
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Number of Riskin families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Riskin families
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17 - 32 6 - 16 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Riskin 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
Riskin census records
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