Poleski Family History
- Poleski Name Meaning
- Polish, Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic), Ukrainian, and Belorussian: regional name for someone from Polesie, a region covering parts of modern Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine. Polish: habitational name for someone from any of various places called Polesie, named with a Slavic word meaning ‘forest glade’ or ‘cleared forest land’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,645 Historical Documents with Poleski on Ancestry
- 1,732 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,365 Census and Voter Lists
- 395 Military Records
- 240 Immigration Records
- 913 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Poleski census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Poleski 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.
Click on a place to view Poleski 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 Poleski 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 Poleski 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
Poleski census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Poleski ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Poleskis 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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