Schlei Family History
- Schlei Name Meaning
- German: occupational nickname from Schleie ‘tench’ (Middle Low German, Middle High German sli, slie) (see Schley).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,183 Historical Documents with Schlei on Ancestry
- 5,741 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 870 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,252 Military Records
- 234 Immigration Records
- 2,086 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Schlei census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Schlei surname lived over the years.
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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 Schlei 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.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Schlei census records
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