Lien Family History
- Lien Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with the definite singular form of Li 4. Dutch: from the Middle Dutch personal name Liedin, a pet form of any of the various Germanic compound names beginning with leud, liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’, such as Liedwin. New England variant spelling of Lyon. Chinese : variant of Lian 2. Chinese : variant of Lian 2. Vietnamese: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 140,680 Historical Documents with Lien on Ancestry
- 62,738 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,880 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,027 Military Records
- 7,263 Immigration Records
- 43,772 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lien census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Lien surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Lien families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Lien families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Lien census records
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