John Tanner and his family

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John Tanner and His Family of course, is in getting people to answer letters and furnish genealogi­ cal material. The present author was in the mission field during the time a portion of the book was in preparation, and he received urgent letters from Maurice Tanner asking his assistance in gathering data from relatives in Jersey City, New Jersey, who did not answer his letters. After years of patient, persistent work, the first Tanner Geneal­ estimated ogy book containing 2,630 names was published, but it was the because of short names that it was nearly 1,000 inability of the information." the author to obtain In 1942 a new and enlarged edition of the John Tanner book author, Maurice Tanner, which by the esti­ present author's count included 5,414 names. The compilers mated that the total descendants probably numbered near 6,000, but was prepared by the they were same unable to obtain information about the others. The author wishes to acknowledge the heavy debt owed to Maurice Tanner. While both the 1923 and 1942 editions of the Tanner book were largely in the field of genealogy, this present book was made much easier because of these earlier works." In 1969 the descendants of Nathan Tanner, son of John Tanner, published a genealogy book of Nathan's descendants. By count the present author found 3,975 names which is 1,345 more than the entire John Tanner Genealogy book of 1923, and only 1,439 less than the John Tanner Family book of 1942. The John Tanner family families of all John's children Tanner family, is growing at a rapid rate. growing at the rate of the are then John Tanner's descendants now If the Nathan number well 20,000. More than 90 percent are located in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, California, and the other Western States." over But the descendants of John Tanner may be to learn how few of them bear the Tanner name. a little surprised Curiosity led the in the recent Nathan Tanner Family book which contains a total of 3,975 names. There are a total of 973 different family names commencing with all the letters of the alphabet except X. N ames beginning with S contained the largest author to number, a Z had but but a little analyse total of one over the names 107, closely followed by name each. four for each The family name. x B with 105. names Q, U, and averaged in the book