Researching Jane Tompkins
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2585 people with the Tompkins surname? In that year Tompkins was ranked number 1517 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Jane means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jane Tompkins on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jane Tompkins and the Tompkins Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 2900 people with the Tompkins surname in the UK? Tompkins is now ranked number 1854 for popularity in the UK. |
Tompkins Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 24306 people with the Tompkins surname in the USA? Tompkins is ranked number 149 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Jane Tompkins
Jane Tompkins
Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s. She earned her PhD at Yale in 1966 and subsequently taught at Temple University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is married to cultural critic Stanley Fish.
Source: Jane Tompkins, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Tompkins
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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