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Opdahl Family History

Opdahl Name Meaning
habitational name from any of about fifteen farmsteads named Oppdal, from Old Norse Uppdalr, from uppi ‘up’ + dalr ‘valley’.altered form of Øvstedal, the name of a farm in western Norway, composed of øvste ‘upper’ + dal ‘valley’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

7,772 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Opdahl
1,819 Census and Voter Lists
500 Immigration Records
2,694 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
2,545 Member Family Trees
214 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Opdahl Families

  • Number of Opdahl families
     11 - 19
     4 - 10
     1 - 3
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Opdahl Family Origin

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Opdahl Immigration Information

from the New York Passenger Lists

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Average Life Expectancy for Opdahl

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Opdahl Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

Opdahl census records

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Opdahl Civil War Service Records

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