Gad Family History
- Gad Name Meaning
- English: variant spelling of Gadd. Danish: from a medieval nickname Gad meaning ‘sting’, ‘point’, or from the Biblical male personal name Gad. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic jad ‘serious’, ‘earnest’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 33,649 Historical Documents with Gad on Ancestry
- 18,353 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,272 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,197 Military Records
- 916 Immigration Records
- 8,911 Member Trees
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Number of Gad families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gad families
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1 1 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gad 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
Gad census records
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