Cal Family History
- Cal Name Meaning
- Spanish: topographic name for someone who lived by an area of limestone, from cal ‘lime(stone)’ (from Late Latin cals, Latin calx). Spanish: variant of Calle. Portuguese: reduced variant of Canal. Polish (Ca{l-}): nickname from an Old Polish variant of ca{l-}y ‘whole’, ‘entire’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 247,206 Historical Documents with Cal on Ancestry
- 169,662 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,082 Census and Voter Lists
- 65,463 Military Records
- 2,597 Immigration Records
- 1,402 Member Trees
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Number of Cal families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cal families
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1 1 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Cal 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
Cal census records
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