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reel Name Meaning and History

Dutch: from a shortened form of the Germanic name Radilo, itself a short form of a compound name formed with rad ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ as the first element, for example Radolf. Compare Ralph.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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reel Family Facts

Distribution of reel Families in the US in 1920
Number of reel families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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REEL Floy H and Leslie E t42Moore 0
Reel family in West Virginia jreel08 1
William Lee Reel Donna Geiser 11
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Searching For a Book on the NC Reels. Stacie Fogliasso-Reel 2
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Great grandmother Rosa Reel Karen Phillips Green 4
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