Giel Family History
- Giel Name Meaning
- from a medieval personal name of which the original form was Latin Aegidius, from Greek aigidion ‘kid’, ‘young goat’. Compare English Giles. in some instances, an altered spelling of Geil.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,263 Historical Documents with Giel on Ancestry
- 11,767 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,626 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,182 Military Records
- 1,335 Immigration Records
- 3,353 Member Trees
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Number of Giel families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Giel 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
Giel census records
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