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boer Name Meaning and History

Dutch and North German: occupational name for a farmer, from Middle Low German bur ‘dweller’, ‘citizen’, ‘neighbor’, ‘farmer’ (see Bauer).

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boer Family Facts

Distribution of boer Families in the US in 1920
Number of boer families
 18-33
 7-17		 1-6
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Threads: 22 - Messages: 47
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Jeanette Boer Zaccone eberhakl 1
Grace Boer DPyritz 7
Jan Hendrik Boers BLeydecker 0
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Boer family - Utrecht, NL to Kalamazoo, MI 799hal 1
Boer of New Orleans LA pmbfam 0
Boer Stephanie Rucker 1
Roelof Boer juanita7931 1
Boer photos from Albany, NY jwestes 0
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