Wald Family History
- Wald Name Meaning
- German and English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a forest (Old High German wald, northern Middle English wald). Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Wald ‘forest’. Very few Jews would have been living anywhere near a forest at the time when they acquired surnames, so as a Jewish name its origins are unlikely to be topographic.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 157,020 Historical Documents with Wald on Ancestry
- 72,816 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,345 Census and Voter Lists
- 19,285 Military Records
- 8,768 Immigration Records
- 27,806 Member Trees
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Number of Wald families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wald families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wald 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
Wald census records
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