Records of Jon Shank on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jon Shank and the Shank Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Shank 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 Shank family tree.

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Shank Family Tree Databases

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Some Famous People called Jon Shank

Jon Beck Shank

Jon Beck Shank (1919-1977) was a Mormon poet and a high school English teacher in New York City. Shank studied at Brigham Young University. While at BYU Shank collaborated with Davis Bitton on a theatrical production.

Shank was a native of Pennsylvania and a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Shank died in 1977.

In 1945 Shank had a collection of his poems published by Alfred A. Knopf. He later taught high school English in New York City, among his students was Roger Rosenblatt, who later wrote an essay praising Mormon artists in which he admitted that this view was largely a result of his association with Shank.

Another of Shank's students was Anne Waldman who has mentioned him being a scholar of the works of Wallace Stevens.

Source: Jon Beck Shank, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Shank

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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