Elsen Family History
- Elsen Name Meaning
- metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Elisabeth (see Elizabeth). probably also a shortened form of van Elsen, a habitational name for someone from any of various places named Elzen, for example in North Brabant, or in the Belgian provinces of Brabant and Liège. Alternatively, it may be from van den Elsen, a topographic name from the plural of els ‘alder’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 71,565 Historical Documents with Elsen on Ancestry
- 38,424 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,713 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,004 Military Records
- 2,080 Immigration Records
- 16,344 Member Trees
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Number of Elsen families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Elsen 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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