Seal Family History
- Seal Name Meaning
- English: variant of Sale 1. English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of seals or signet rings, from Middle English, Old French seel ‘seal’ (Latin sigillum). English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of saddles, from Old French seele ‘saddle’. English: nickname for a plump or ungainly person, from Middle English sele ‘seal’ (the aquatic mammal). Americanized form (translation) of Jewish Siegel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 524,605 Historical Documents with Seal on Ancestry
- 143,329 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 97,613 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,124 Military Records
- 5,819 Immigration Records
- 264,720 Member Trees
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Number of Seal families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Seal 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
Seal census records
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