Filer Family History
Filer Name Meaning
occupational name for a maker or user of files, from
an agent derivative of Middle English file
‘file’.occupational name for a spinner, from an agent derivative
of Middle English, Old French fil ‘thread’ (Latin
filum).Americanized spelling of German
Feiler, cognate of 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Filer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Filer families
 46 - 89  16 - 45 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Filer families
|
121 - 240 41 - 120 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Filer census records
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Filer Family Origin
Filer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Filer
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Filer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Filer census records
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Filer Civil War Service Records
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