Otness Family History
- Otness Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of three farmsteads named with Ot (probably from a river name related to otte ‘fear’) + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,410 Historical Documents with Otness on Ancestry
- 1,349 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 521 Census and Voter Lists
- 163 Military Records
- 205 Immigration Records
- 1,172 Member Trees
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Number of Otness families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
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
Otness 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
Otness census records
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