Interesting
Facts
As of
Here are some interesting facts I’ve discovered about the family by analyzing my genealogical database of 46,305 individuals. I thought some of you might enjoy reading this.
The family database currently has 46,305 individuals
Gender:
Males: 23,303
Females: 22,984
Unknown
gender: 18
Race:
White: 45,247
Non-White:
1,058
Whis.... data only
Françoise Visinand: 22,767 direct line descendants.
Francoise is a great-grandson of Guillaume Visinand.
Whis... Surnames:
All Whis....: 18,039 males:
10,145 females:
7,894
Whisenhunt/hant:
5,135 males: 2,943 females:
2,192
Whisenant: 5,892 males:
3,252 females: 2,640
Whisonant: 673 males: 390 females:
283
Whisnant: 4,419 males:
2,450 females:
1,969
Whisnand: 241 males: 134 females: 107
Whisenand: 690 males: 382 females: 308
Whisennand: 186 males: 110 females: 76
Hunt: 633 males:
352 females:
281
Other Spelling: 170 males: 132 females: 38
Longest lived family members:
Male:
Female: Minnie Whisnant, age 105 (black)
Whis... with the most offspring:
Male: Henry Whisenhunt, Number of children: 16
Boys: 10
Girls: 6
Male: Henry Allen Whisenand, Number of children: 16
Boys: 8
Girls: 8
Female: Maria Madgalena Whisenhunt Whitener, Number of chldren: 15
Boys: 6
Girls: 9
Whis... married the most number of times:
Male: Lewis Howard Whisnant, 7 times
Female: Eunice Odett Whisenhunt, 6 times
Female: Rosa LuRena Whisenhunt, 6 times
Female: Sharyn Ann Whisenant, 6 times
It should be noted that for every category in the statistical data above, the number of females always appear to be less than the number of males. The reason for this is that my research for female Whis... family members stops with their grand-children. I track no newer generations for females. On occasion I follow a female line to the present, but I do this only for individuals I have a special interest in.
People have asked me why I don't keep track of all Whis... descendants. The answer is I just don't have the time, desire, or the resources necessary to do this. My primary objective is to track all family members with the Whis... surname. By the time you get to the grand-children of female Whis...'s their surname is no longer Whis....
Please note that I refer to all the family surnames as “Whis...”. I do this because there are so many spelling variations of the surname that I couldn't possibly mention them all here. I just refer to them all as “Whis...”.