Reel Family History
- Reel Name Meaning
- Dutch: from a shortened form of the Germanic name Radilo, itself a short form of a compound name formed with rad ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ as the first element, for example Radolf. Compare Ralph.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 169,529 Historical Documents with Reel on Ancestry
- 56,618 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 29,730 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,873 Military Records
- 2,234 Immigration Records
- 74,074 Member Trees
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Number of Reel families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reel families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Reel 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
Reel census records
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