Whetsell Family History
- Whetsell Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of German Wetzel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,024 Historical Documents with Whetsell on Ancestry
- 6,236 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,888 Census and Voter Lists
- 775 Military Records
- 73 Immigration Records
- 18,052 Member Trees
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Number of Whetsell families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Whetsell families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Whetsell census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Whetsell census records
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- All Whetsell
- 20
- Confederate
- 9
- Union
- 11
from the Civil War Service Records
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