Researching Graham Tainton
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The name Graham means "warlike" and is of Anglo-Saxon origin.
Records of Graham Tainton on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Graham Tainton and the Tainton Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Tainton Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Tainton family tree.
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Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Graham Tainton using the FreeBMD database.
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Tainton Family Tree Databases
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Tainton Forums
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Miscellaneous Tainton Databases
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Some Famous People called Graham Tainton
Graham Tainton
Graham Tainton (born 17 September 1927 in South Africa) is a Swedish dancer and choreographer who came to Sweden in 1959 with a large music ensemble, The Golden City Dixies. He married a Swede, and their oldest daughter Blossom Tainton-Lindquist was born in 1962. He is also the father of entertainment celebrities Kelly Tainton, Themba Tainton and David Tainton and a cousin of Miriam Makeba.
Tainton was ABBAs choreographer and has more recently appeared in UR's Living Room where he accounted for his early years in South Africa with Desmond Tutu as his priest and Nelson Mandela the lawyer who got him out of prison under apartheid. He has also been in the jury and appeared on a Swedish TV show called Floor Filler. In 2016 88-year-old Tainton was honored and interviewed on the popular Let's Dance (Swedish TV series).
Source: Graham Tainton, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Tainton
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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