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

Looking for meaning of surname "Helsel"

by Greg (guest)

1/14/2007, 4:49 PM

Anyone know the meaning of surname "Helsel," probably of German origination?

- Jim Young (guest) +1

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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