Resta Family History
- Resta Name Meaning
- Italian and Greek (Restas): from the vocabulary word resto ‘remainder’, ‘leftover’. Italian: possibly from a short form of the personal name Oreste.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 11,676 Historical Documents with Resta on Ancestry
- 6,833 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,182 Census and Voter Lists
- 652 Military Records
- 919 Immigration Records
- 1,090 Member Trees
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Number of Resta families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Resta families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Resta last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Resta census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Resta families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Resta families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family.
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Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Resta
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Restas fight for the North or the South? Or not at all? Military
records can tell you a lot about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation,
and even physical descriptions.
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