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heritage Name Meaning and History

English: status name for someone who inherited land from an ancestor, rather than by feudal gift from an overlord, from Middle English, Old French (h)eritage ‘inherited property’ (Late Latin heritagium, from heres ‘heir’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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heritage Family Facts

Distribution of heritage Families in the US in 1920
Number of heritage families
 29-56
 10-28		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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