Folk Family History
- Folk Name Meaning
- Variant of German Volk or the English cognate Foulks.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 171,910 Historical Documents with Folk on Ancestry
- 60,919 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 32,575 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,778 Military Records
- 3,234 Immigration Records
- 65,404 Member Trees
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Number of Folk families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Folk families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Folk census records
You can see how Folk families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Folk immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Folk 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.
from the New York Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Folk emigration records
You can find out when most of the Folk 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
Folk census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Folk ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Folks 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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