Reil Family History
- Reil Name Meaning
- German: from a Germanic personal name composed with rag- ‘advice’, ‘counsel’, rah(ha) ‘revenge’, or ric ‘power(ful)’. South German: nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German ru ‘rough’, derived from a base form reule ‘coarse-haired (person)’. Compare German rauh. habitational name from a place in Rhineland called Reil.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 51,307 Historical Documents with Reil on Ancestry
- 25,583 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,232 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,860 Military Records
- 1,900 Immigration Records
- 10,732 Member Trees
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Number of Reil families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Reil families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Reil 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
Reil census records
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