Kowalski Family History
- Kowalski Name Meaning
- Polish: habitational name for someone from Kowalskie in Poznan voivodeship or a place called Kowale. Polish and Jewish (from Poland): patronymic from Kowal, an occupational name from kowal ‘smith’, with the addition of the common surname suffix -ski.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 269,260 Historical Documents with Kowalski on Ancestry
- 133,717 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 42,524 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,877 Military Records
- 17,089 Immigration Records
- 55,053 Member Trees
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Number of Kowalski families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Kowalski census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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