Vital Family History
- Vital Name Meaning
- French, Spanish, Italian, and English: from a vernacular form of the Latin personal name Vitalis (see Vitale). The English surname may derive, at least in part, as a nickname from the Middle English word vital in the sense ‘full of vitality’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,738 Historical Documents with Vital on Ancestry
- 43,361 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,448 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,979 Military Records
- 2,271 Immigration Records
- 3,679 Member Trees
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Number of Vital families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vital families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Vital census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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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 Vital 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 the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Vital families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Vital census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Vital ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Vitals fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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