Schmeisser Family History
- Schmeisser Name Meaning
- German (Schmeisser): from an agent derivative of Middle High German smizen ‘to spread or smear’, ‘to strike’, hence an occupational name for a painter or plasterer, or for a miner using a pickaxe.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 38,299 Historical Documents with Schmeisser on Ancestry
- 21,178 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,303 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,555 Military Records
- 1,204 Immigration Records
- 13,059 Member Trees
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Number of Schmeisser families
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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 the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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