Researching Tam Tran
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 62 people with the Tran surname? In that year Tran was ranked number 3517 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Tam means "Palm tree" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Tam Tran on Ancestry
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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. A DNA test can sometimes help to make a link to a particular family name if you find you share common DNA with people who have the same or similar surnames as each other. If you are lucky then you may get a match within a few generations and discover some Tran 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 Tam Tran and the Tran Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Tran 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 Tran family tree.
Check out Parish Records for Tam Tran at Find My Past.
Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Tam Tran using the FreeBMD database.
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Tran Family Tree Databases
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Find Tam Tran from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Tran 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.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 72918 people with the Tran surname in the USA? Tran is ranked number 133 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Tran Databases
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Some Famous People called Tam Tran
Tam Van Tran
Tam Van Tran (born 1966) is a visual artist born in Vietnam who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His primary materials for paintings and sculptures include clay and paper, and extend to chlorophyll, glass, algae, staples, crushed eggshells, Wite-out eraser liquid, beet juice, gelatin, and other diverse ingredients which lend texture and intricacy to his organically-molded abstractions.
Exhibitions featuring the work of Tam Van Tran have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, and is in numerous public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, The Broad Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Blaffer Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and the Neuberger Museum of Art. He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and the Film and Television Program at UCLA.
Source: Tam Van Tran, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Tran
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.
Tarmey Tarn Tarnaw Tarney Tarno Tarnow Taron Taroni Tarren Tearney Tearny Teran Terhune Tern Terne Terney Terno Terram Terran Terren Terrian Terrien Terron Tharan Tharme Thauren Therrian Therrien Therrin Thoren Thorn Thorne Thraen Thram Thran Thrane Throne Thurnau Tieraney Tierney Tierno Tierny Tiron Tirone Toran Torano Torian Torigni Tormey Torn Torneau Torney Torno Tornow Torriani Torrone Tourigny Tournay Tourne Tourneau Tourney Tournie Traaen Trahan Train Traina Traine Trane Trani Traun Trawin Treen Treion Trembey Treon Trewin Trian Triana Trim Trimbey Trimby Trime Trimm Trimme Trine Trion Troiano Tromm Trone Troni Truhan Truin Trumbo Trumm Trumme Tryan Tryme Trymme Tryon Tuerena Turan Turany Turin Turkney Turn Turney Turone Turyn Tyrone





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