Popelka Family History
- Popelka Name Meaning
- Czech: nickname for someone thought of as ‘gray’, i.e. one who was neglected or overlooked, from a pet form of the word popel ‘ashes’. Popelka is the Czech equivalent of Cinderella.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,622 Historical Documents with Popelka on Ancestry
- 7,778 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,267 Census and Voter Lists
- 698 Military Records
- 640 Immigration Records
- 4,239 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Popelka census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Popelka census records
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