Schissel Family History
- Schissel Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a maker of dishes, probably of wood and hence a turner, from Middle High German schüssel, Yiddish shisl ‘dish’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,817 Historical Documents with Schissel on Ancestry
- 3,074 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,760 Census and Voter Lists
- 293 Military Records
- 362 Immigration Records
- 4,328 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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