Gilgen Family History
- Gilgen Name Meaning
- German and Swiss German: from the inflected form of a house name ‘at the lily’, based on Middle High German lilge, gilge ‘lily’, or a habitational name for someone from a place called St. Ägidi (earlier, Aegilius), near Passau, for instance.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 19,131 Historical Documents with Gilgen on Ancestry
- 4,940 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,429 Census and Voter Lists
- 662 Military Records
- 346 Immigration Records
- 11,754 Member Trees
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Number of Gilgen families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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