Alan Family History
- Alan Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: variant spelling of Allen. This is the usual spelling of the personal name in England and Scotland, but is infrequent as a surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 393,628 Historical Documents with Alan on Ancestry
- 25,260 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,108 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,616 Military Records
- 1,400 Immigration Records
- 357,244 Member Trees
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Number of Alan families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Alan families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Alan 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 Alan families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Alan 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.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Alan census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Alan ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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