Balis Family History
- Balis Name Meaning
- English: variant of Bayliss. Hungarian and Croatian (Bališ): from the personal name Bali, a pet form of Baltazar or Balint. Perhaps also Greek: occupational status name from Turkish balija ‘workman’, ‘low-ranking man’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 30,392 Historical Documents with Balis on Ancestry
- 11,577 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,426 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,222 Military Records
- 1,312 Immigration Records
- 9,855 Member Trees
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Number of Balis families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Balis families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Balis census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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