Sylvan Family History
- Sylvan Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of French Sylvain. Swedish: derivative of the Latin adjective sylvanus ‘of or pertaining to forest’, used as a translation of Swedish skog ‘forest’, for any of several Swedish vernacular names of which this word was a component.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,863 Historical Documents with Sylvan on Ancestry
- 5,120 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,242 Census and Voter Lists
- 299 Military Records
- 796 Immigration Records
- 2,406 Member Trees
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Number of Sylvan families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sylvan families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sylvan census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Sylvan census records
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