Kowalewski Family History
- Kowalewski Name Meaning
- Polish: habitational name for someone from places called Kowalew or Kowalewo, named with kowal ‘smith’. Jewish (from Poland): occupational name from the vocabulary word kowal ‘smith’, with the addition of the common surname ending -ewski.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 51,910 Historical Documents with Kowalewski on Ancestry
- 27,622 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,536 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,087 Military Records
- 4,116 Immigration Records
- 8,549 Member Trees
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Number of Kowalewski 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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