I'm researching my husband's family and am having a hard time finding info
2006-08-06 05:28:05 · 5 answers · asked by mel 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
It appears to be a Jewish name by origin. The earliest US census record of the name is in 1840 (John Milgrim, Rockingham county, NC).
The English census of 1871 lists a family in Northumberland. The parents were born in Scotland.
There are also Russian immigrants using the name (can't say if it is original because the first names are also anglicized). For example Charles Milgrim of New York, a tailor, was born in Russia in 1889, immigrated in 1891 and was naturalized in Brooklyn in 1914.
From the above, it would appear that the name may have separate originations in Scotland/England and with European Jews.
2006-08-06 08:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of Milgrams on the planet. Could you give us a little more specific info? What state did he come from? Do you know any ancestor names (parent, grandparent, great, etc)
Let us know, and we'll try to get you on the right path. Right now, though, I'm not even sure what continent to start you on.
2006-08-06 05:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Piligrim
2006-08-06 05:34:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A few people are.
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
has 120 entries.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
has 87
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=
has 22
"Smith", by comparison, has thousands or hundreds of thousands in each site. It is rare, but not unknown.
2006-08-06 06:39:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just http://www.google.com/ It.
2006-08-06 05:30:49 · answer #5 · answered by ... 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋