Galicia Family History

Galicia Name Meaning

Spanish: ethnic name for someone from the former kingdom of Galicia, now an autonomous region of northwestern Spain.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Name Distribution of Galicia Families

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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

Galicia census records

You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Galicia surname lived over the years.

While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.

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Galicia Family Origin

Germany (1)

from the New York Passengers List

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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk. You can find out where the majority of the Galicia 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.

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Galicia Emigration Information (US)

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You can find out when most of the Galicia families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.

Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.

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Galicia Family Occupations

Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Galicia ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social and economic status.

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Military Service by Galicia

Did the Galicias 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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Tony R GALICIA 1963-1997 gravestone in (Shannon) Rose Hill Cemetery, Tarrant Co., Texas.		t42RoseHill	0
obit for Frank GALICIA of Cheyenne, Wyoming d. 2004			0

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