Giza Family History
- Giza Name Meaning
- Polish: nickname from gi?za ‘hind leg of an ox or swine’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a butcher. Albanian (Gjizë): occupational name for a maker or seller of cheese, from gjizë ‘skim-milk cheese’. In the form Gizas this is also found as a Greek and Aromanian family name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,060 Historical Documents with Giza on Ancestry
- 7,552 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,604 Census and Voter Lists
- 877 Military Records
- 1,071 Immigration Records
- 1,956 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Giza census records
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