2,511 Thayer records from public death, burial and census records and the old county histories, in all 12 Midwestern states we cover. Every name is a real person in the public record, and we follow set rules to leave living people out (how).
From public death, burial and census records across 12 Midwestern states. We follow set rules to leave living people out (how). Tap a state or a decade to narrow the list of ancestors below.
Written from county histories and public records, every fact cited. We follow set rules to leave living people out (how).
The earliest Thayers in the county histories
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120 of the 2,374 Thayer people in our records, from every state where the name turns up: the earliest born and the most recent deaths, newest first. Tap a name to open that person's page. Someone listed in two public indexes is shown once. Search every Thayer record →
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Our database holds 2,511 Thayer records from all 12 Midwestern states. The most are in Michigan (424), then Ohio (374) and Wisconsin (371).
The earliest Thayer birth in our database is 1854: Lyman Wellington Thayer, Wisconsin. We have pieced together 230 Thayer family trees from public birth and death records.
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