Slight Family History
- Slight Name Meaning
- nickname from northern Middle English sleght, slyght ‘smooth’, ‘sleek’, ‘slender’, ‘slim’ (probably of Old Norse origin). nickname from Middle English sleghth ‘craft’, ‘cunning’, ‘dexterity’, ‘adroitness’ (Old Norse sl?gð, a derivative of sl?gr ‘sly’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 69,813 Historical Documents with Slight on Ancestry
- 21,903 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 18,894 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,623 Military Records
- 1,625 Immigration Records
- 22,768 Member Trees
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Number of Slight families
 77 - 152  26 - 76 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Slight families
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29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Slight census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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 Slight families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Slight 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
Slight census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Slight ancestors, such as occupation.
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