Omdahl Family History
- Omdahl Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in Agder and Rogaland, named Omdal or Åmdal, from Old Norse Almdalr, a compound of almr ‘elm’ + dalr ‘valley’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,317 Historical Documents with Omdahl on Ancestry
- 3,350 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,219 Census and Voter Lists
- 367 Military Records
- 456 Immigration Records
- 1,925 Member Trees
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Number of Omdahl families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
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
Omdahl census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Omdahl census records
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