Shively Family History
- Shively Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of Swiss German Schäublin or Scheublein, nicknames for a thin or skinny person, from Middle High German shoup ‘(straw) bundle’ + the diminutive suffix -lein, -lin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 230,296 Historical Documents with Shively on Ancestry
- 66,115 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,006 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,268 Military Records
- 1,444 Immigration Records
- 124,463 Member Trees
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Number of Shively families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shively families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Shively census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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