Posts in December 13, 2022

I hate to call them “variant” spellings because that suggests the family actually used the spelling at one point or another. Sometimes errors are simply errors. And there can always be one more incorrect rendering of a last name no matter how many other spellings have been located. For me the actual last name was Tammen and the “new” variant was Tanney. It’s from a transcription and little thought is needed to see how two “m”s can be read as two “n”s. The “n” as a “y” is a little more suspect, but without seeing the original handwriting it’s hard to say how reasonable the interpretation was. Getting the original document is on my to-do list. Just a reminder to keep your mind open to other renderings when […]