Kilpela Family History
- Kilpela Name Meaning
- Finnish (Kilpelä): From kilpi ‘shield’ + the local suffix -la. Found chiefly in northeastern Finland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,458 Historical Documents with Kilpela on Ancestry
- 1,656 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 462 Census and Voter Lists
- 158 Military Records
- 138 Immigration Records
- 1,044 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kilpela census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kilpela surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Kilpela 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
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You can find out when most of the Kilpela 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.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Kilpela
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Kilpelas fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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