Palek Family History
- Palek Name Meaning
- Czech: from a pet form of the personal name Pavel or some other personal name beginning with Pa-.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,313 Historical Documents with Palek on Ancestry
- 2,080 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 878 Census and Voter Lists
- 344 Military Records
- 313 Immigration Records
- 698 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Palek census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Palek 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.
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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 Palek families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Palek
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Paleks fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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