Griswold Family History
- Griswold Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Griswolds Farm in Snitterfield, Warwickshire, which is probably named with Old English greosn ‘gravel’ + weald ‘woodland’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,089,867 Historical Documents with Griswold on Ancestry
- 125,538 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 80,345 Census and Voter Lists
- 21,247 Military Records
- 7,521 Immigration Records
- 855,216 Member Trees
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Number of Griswold families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Griswold census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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