Able Family History
- Able Name Meaning
- English: variant spelling of Abel. Probably also an Americanized spelling of the same surname in other languages.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 189,025 Historical Documents with Able on Ancestry
- 55,657 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 34,836 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,810 Military Records
- 1,553 Immigration Records
- 78,169 Member Trees
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Number of Able families
 59 - 116  20 - 58 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Able families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Able census records
You can see how Able families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Able families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Able families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Able census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Able ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Ables fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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