Message: "Re: Looking for meaning of surname "Helsel""

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Re: Looking for meaning of surname "Helsel"

by Jim Young (guest)

1/18/2007, 2:44 AM

The ancestry.com website explains this as an Americanisation of the South German name Hoelzel, which is a diminutive form of holz, "wood".

- Greg (guest)

1/20/2007, 1:43 PM

Thanks for the info, Jim.

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