Zalar Family History
- Zalar Name Meaning
- (mainly eastern Slovenia; Žalar) status name from the dialect word žalar ‘cottager’, ‘tenant’, from the Austrian German word Söller (compare Sellner). This denoted a day laborer who lived in a small house with no agricultural land. habitational name for a person from the village of Zala.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,607 Historical Documents with Zalar on Ancestry
- 2,846 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 989 Census and Voter Lists
- 262 Military Records
- 553 Immigration Records
- 957 Member Trees
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Number of Zalar 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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