Gilliss Family History
- Gilliss Name Meaning
- Variant spelling of Scottish Gillis.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,735 Historical Documents with Gilliss on Ancestry
- 2,170 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,258 Census and Voter Lists
- 667 Military Records
- 244 Immigration Records
- 4,396 Member Trees
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Number of Gilliss families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gilliss families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gilliss census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gilliss census records
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