Solheim Family History
- Solheim Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of thirty or more farmsteads, notably in Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane, so named from Old Norse Sólheimr, a compound of sól ‘sun’ + heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,625 Historical Documents with Solheim on Ancestry
- 6,671 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,167 Census and Voter Lists
- 679 Military Records
- 2,949 Immigration Records
- 6,159 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Solheim census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Solheim 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.
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 Solheim 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 Solheim 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 Solheim
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Solheims 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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