Wendel Family History
- Wendel Name Meaning
- Dutch and German: from a pet form of a short form, Wando, of a compound Germanic personal name beginning with wand ‘to go’, ‘to migrate’. German: metonymic occupational name for a turner, from Middle High German wendel ‘to turn’ or Middle Low German wendelen ‘to turn, twist’. South German: from a short form of Wendelin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 261,200 Historical Documents with Wendel on Ancestry
- 151,923 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,717 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,471 Military Records
- 7,887 Immigration Records
- 67,202 Member Trees
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Number of Wendel families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wendel families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wendel census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Wendel census records
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