Olm Family History
- Olm Name Meaning
- German: habitational name from places near Mainz or in Lower Saxony (near Lüneburg), so named from an old element, ulm ‘mud’. In some instances the surname may be topographic. Dutch and Catalan: topographic name from Dutch and Old Catalan olm ‘elm’, from Latin ulmus.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,162 Historical Documents with Olm on Ancestry
- 11,079 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,238 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,661 Military Records
- 627 Immigration Records
- 3,557 Member Trees
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Number of Olm families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Olm 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
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