Rule Family History
- Rule Name Meaning
- English: from the medieval personal name Roul (see Rollo, Rolf). Scottish: habitational name from a place in Roxburghshire, so named from the stream on which it stands. This name is of uncertain origin, possibly from Welsh rhull ‘hasty’, ‘rash’. Probably an altered spelling of German Ruhl. EG
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 473,749 Historical Documents with Rule on Ancestry
- 116,491 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 88,406 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,269 Military Records
- 8,591 Immigration Records
- 242,992 Member Trees
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Number of Rule families
 50 - 97  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rule families
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195 - 388 66 - 194 |
1 - 65 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rule families
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31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rule census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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
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- All Rule
- 139
- Confederate
- 39
- Union
- 100
from the Civil War Service Records
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