Researching Sarah Tan
Delve into the history of Sarah Tan using the links below. We hope you find this information useful!
![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 18 people with the Tan surname? In that year Tan was ranked number 3561 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Sarah means "princess" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Sarah Tan on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Sarah Tan in your family tree. With over 30 billion records and 100 million family trees to search, Ancestry is one of the key websites to visit to help you trace your family tree back in time. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
Sometimes you can run into a brick wall in your tree and you just don't have enough evidence to make that next step back in time. If you are lucky then you may find some previously undiscovered Tan ancestors. Additionally, the modern DNA test can give you a breakdown of your ethnic mix - you may be surprised at the results!
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Sarah Tan and the Tan Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Tan 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 Tan family tree.
Search Parish Records for Sarah Tan at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Sarah Tan using the FreeBMD database.
Investigate Genealogy Bank for Sarah Tan records.
Study MyHeritage for Sarah Tan information.
Search the LDS Database for records about Sarah Tan.
Research the Tan surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Tan Military records.
![]() | Did you know that there are currently 1724 people with the Tan surname in the UK? Tan is now ranked number 2526 for popularity in the UK. |
Tan Family Tree Databases
Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.
Investigate the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Sarah Tan.
Study MyTrees for information on the Tan family and people looking to contact living Tan relations.
Investigate One Great Family for Tan records submitted by people who are already researching the Tan Family Tree.
Find Sarah Tan from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Tan Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
Research the Tan surname using Genealogy.com forums .
![]() | Did you know that there are currently 15191 people with the Tan surname in the USA? Tan is ranked number 152 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Tan Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Sarah Tan. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Sarah Tan
Sarah Tan
Sarah Tan (born 1 August 1980 in the United Kingdom) is a British Channel V VJ and a 987FM DJ. Sarah Tan is a Singapore resident. Her father is Chinese and her mother is English. She has two younger sisters, Kathryn and Laura. She attended an all-girls boarding school in Shropshire, England, when she was 13. Several years later she returned to Singapore to finish high school at the United World College of South East Asia. Later, she enrolled in the University of Surrey and graduated with a degree in English literature.
Tan previously worked as a bartender and a shop assistant at Chanel. She began her modeling career when she was 16 with the prestigious Elite Models Singapore agency. It was through this agency that she received the coveted VJ spot on Channel V International. Apart from VJ-ing for Channel V, she is currently hosting a dating show called A Light Affair which is aired on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 Singapore. She also hosts Spellcast on Okto. As a model, she has been the cover girl for various magazines such as Flirt, Seventeen, Her World and in Malaysia's Newtide and Female, as well as Singapore's Newman magazine.
Despite her fame in Malaysia, she was virtually unknown in her own country, Singapore, when she first started VJ-ing for Channel [V], because the show was not aired in Singapore.
In 2005, Tan signed with modelling agency Mannequin Studio.
She is currently affiliated to 3 different modeling agencies; one in Singapore, one in Thailand, and the last one in Hong Kong. Tan was voted fifth-sexiest woman in Asia FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2003 and third-sexiest woman in Asia FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 2004.
Source: Sarah Tan, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Tan
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.
Tagney Taiana Taianne Tam Tamayo Tame Tamme Taney Tanghe Tangney Tann Tanney Tawn Tawney Tayne Teahan Teahen Teaney Teehan Teem Teeney Tehan Tembey Temby Ten Tena Teney Tenney Tenny Tenoe Thaim Thain Thaine Thame Thamm Than Thaney Thayne Thiem Thieme Thimm Thine Thinn Thoene Thom Thoma Thomae Thome Thon Thone Thoney Thony Thouin Thum Thuma Thumm Thumma Thun Thynn Thynne Tiano Timby Timm Timma Timme Timny Tinaya Tine Tineo Tiney Tinn Tinney Tn Toan Toeni Tohm Tom Toma Tomah Tomai Tomb Tombaugh Tome Tomei Tomeo Tomey Tomme Tommei Tommeo Tommy Tomney Ton Tone Toney Tonn Tonna Tonne Toomay Toomee Toomey Toon Toone Touma Toun Toune Town Towne Toyne Tuma Tume Tumee Tumey Tumy Tune Tunn Tunna Tunnah Tunney Tunno Tunnow Tunny Tunuy Tuny Tuomy Tween Twine Twinn Twomey Twoomy Twyan Twyne Tym Tymm Tyne Tyni





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