Geels Family History
- Geels Name Meaning
- Dutch: perhaps a patronymic from the Germanic personal name Gailo; otherwise, a variant of Gillis. English and Scottish: possibly, as Black proposes, a variant of Giles.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,489 Historical Documents with Geels on Ancestry
- 6,142 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 814 Census and Voter Lists
- 58 Military Records
- 92 Immigration Records
- 2,383 Member Trees
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Number of Geels families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Geels census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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