Palen Family History
- Palen Name Meaning
- Variant of North German Pahlen, a topographic name from Middle Low German pal ‘post’, ‘stake’, ‘boundary marker’. French: variant of Palin. Americanized spelling of Belgian Peelen, a habitational name for someone from either of two places called Peel, in North Brabant and Limburg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 55,893 Historical Documents with Palen on Ancestry
- 19,622 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,597 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,085 Military Records
- 1,553 Immigration Records
- 19,036 Member Trees
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Number of Palen families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Palen families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Palen 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
Palen census records
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