Czech, Slovak, and Romanian: from a short form of the personal name
Vladislav, an old Slavic name composed of the elements
volod ‘rule’ + slav ‘glory’, Latinized as
Ladislaus and found in Hungarian as László (see
Laszlo).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vlad
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vlad census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Vlad 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.
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 Vlad 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.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Vlad
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
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