Beste Family History
- Beste Name Meaning
- English and French: variant spelling of Best. German: topographic name for someone who lived by the Beste river, a tributary of the Trave, or a habitational name from any of various villages called Besten, said by Bahlow to be named with a Middle Low German word for poor soil.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,735 Historical Documents with Beste on Ancestry
- 18,337 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,881 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,109 Military Records
- 872 Immigration Records
- 17,536 Member Trees
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Number of Beste families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Beste families
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15 - 28 6 - 14 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Beste 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
Beste census records
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- All Beste
- 8
- Confederate
- 1
- Union
- 7
from the Civil War Service Records
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