Sandness Family History
- Sandness Name Meaning
- Respelling of Norwegian Sandnes, a habitational name from any of fifty or more farmsteads all over Norway, so named from Old Norse Sandnes, a compound of sand ‘sand’, ‘sandy plain’, ‘beach’ + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,796 Historical Documents with Sandness on Ancestry
- 2,773 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,596 Census and Voter Lists
- 208 Military Records
- 332 Immigration Records
- 1,887 Member Trees
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Number of Sandness families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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