Anyone Out There With The Last Name Of Tabor?

Question

Anyone else out there with the last name of Tabor? Are you related to me? Can you give some history?

Answer 1

You're not going to be related to all 20,000 or however many Tabors there are.

Try asking people that you're actually related to. Like, your PARENTS.

Answer 2

It's a pretty common name in the UK with "over 200" people surnamed Tabor, listed on the current Electoral Roll.  My computer stops counting at 200!

There is just a vague chance that you might find a Tabor Tree on line (without finding any obvious connection with you or your family); have you tried Googling "Tabor Family" to see what comes up?

There is, for example, a friend of mine in the Bristol Family History Society researching one of his family names, originating in Devon, and he has compiled his own web site relating just to that family.  All you have to do is to type in the name and up comes the whole family and branches, right back to the 1500's.

Otherwise it's just a process of tracing back generation by generation - which is most of the fun - to see who belongs to you.

Answer 3

There's  a Jeff Tabor in Maine. Where do you live?

Answer 4

Your question is a catch 22, if you think about it.  No.. without your name (parents/ grandparents), even if I were related to you, there would be no means of telling it.

There is a solid process to finding your ancestor, which does start by working from you, and backwards.  Immediately.. you should realize that you are equally part of your mother, and Tabor is not her maiden name. This will true for ALL your ancestry back. By grandparents, there are 4 of those, only 1 with the Tabor name.  Genealogy/ family history is not based on a surname.. that is just a tag that is used along the way.

Use DOCUMENTS to show your connections.  Your birth certificate would be the most obvious to begin with, then the same for your parents, and grandparents. You will protest that you "know" who they are.. the question is learning to rely on records, not what you "know".  The result is that with records.. there NEVER is a question of which persons are your relatives. You will always identify one generation before moving back to the next one.

At some point, you may find that your proof shows Joe Tabor of Detroit, who was born in 1875, is your ancestor. Only when you know this.. you might stumble onto a distant cousin, who knows that Joes' parents were such and such, who came from New York.

My friendly term for what you are doing, is "throwing darts" and hoping to hit a relative.  Think about it.

Answer 5

I don't know of any one with the surname, but I did find this for you.

Surname: Tabor

Recorded in a wide range of spellings including Tabor, Tabour, Tambur, Tabournier (French), whilst the English versions include Taberner, Tabernor, Tabberner, Tabbernor, Tabiner, Tabner and others. It is a medieval surname of pre 9th century French origins, and one that was introduced into England by the Norman-French invaders at or immediatley after the famous Conquest of 1066. It is job descriptive for a military drummer, one who played the Tabour, the modern Tamborine. The instrument itself is of Ancient Persian origin dating back to 2500 BC., or even earlier and was used in almost every army band upto the present time. The name development in England has included examples of recordings such as Petur Taberner of Devonshire in 1264, Eustace Tabur of Oxford in the Hundred Rolls of 1273, and Wilhelmus Taburner in the Yorkshire Poll Tax registers of 1379. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert le Taburner. This was dated 1201, in the Pipe Rolls of the county of Yorkshire, during the reign of King John. He was known by the nickanme of "Lackland" and reigned from 1199 to 1216. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as the Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Hope this helps.