Researching Jim Tatum
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 260 people with the Tatum surname? In that year Tatum was ranked number 3319 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Jim means "Form of JAMES. one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jim Tatum on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jim Tatum and the Tatum Family Tree
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 656 people with the Tatum surname in the UK? Tatum is now ranked number 3421 for popularity in the UK. |
Tatum Family History Databases
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 33421 people with the Tatum surname in the USA? Tatum is ranked number 146 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Jim Tatum
Jim Tatum
James Moore "Big Jim" Tatum (July 22, 1913 – July 23, 1959) was an American football and baseball player and coach. Tatum served as the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1942, 1956–1958), the University of Oklahoma (1946), and the University of Maryland, College Park (1947–1955), compiling a career college football record of 100–35–7. His 1953 Maryland team won a national title. As a head coach, he employed the split-T formation with great success, a system he had learned as an assistant under Don Faurot at the Iowa Pre-Flight School during World War II. Tatum was also the head baseball coach at Cornell University from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 20–40–1. Tatum's career was cut short by his untimely death in 1959. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1984.
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Other names that sound a bit like Tatum
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