Koelzer Family History
- Koelzer Name Meaning
- from a noun derivative of Kolzen ‘ankle boots’ (Latin calceus ‘half-boot’, ‘walking shoe’), hence an occupational name for a bootmaker or cobbler. habitational name for someone from a place called Kölzen near Merseburg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,165 Historical Documents with Koelzer on Ancestry
- 3,704 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,651 Census and Voter Lists
- 249 Military Records
- 98 Immigration Records
- 7,463 Member Trees
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Number of Koelzer families
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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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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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