Pretz Family History
- Pretz Name Meaning
- Austrian: unexplained; perhaps a variant of Protz, from a short form of the personal name Prokopius, or a nickname from Protz ‘toad’. German: habitational name from either of two places so named in Bavaria and Saxony, possibly also from Preetz in Schleswig-Holstein.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,614 Historical Documents with Pretz on Ancestry
- 6,761 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,100 Census and Voter Lists
- 560 Military Records
- 658 Immigration Records
- 2,535 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Pretz census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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