Beckel Family History
- Beckel Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of German Bechel or of Böckel, a nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German boc ‘buck’, ‘ram’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 42,025 Historical Documents with Beckel on Ancestry
- 18,867 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,131 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,578 Military Records
- 1,124 Immigration Records
- 13,325 Member Trees
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Number of Beckel families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Beckel census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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