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file Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of German Feil or Pfeil.
  2. Hungarian: variant of Füle, pet form of the personal name Fülöp, Hungarian form of Philip.
  3. Translation of French Lalime.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of file Families in the US in 1920
Number of file families
 43-83
 15-42		 1-14
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Thomas FILE - b. 1860 - Bond, Illinois Heidi Harvey-Livengood 22
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John J. & Ellen FIle of Rensselaer County, NY joanhowe 0
File family Kent thejohansens 7
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