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Ron Tanner somehow found and added pictures of John Tanner's family Bible to FamilySearch Family Tree. Since I work with nineteenth cen...

Yesterday I was thinking about John Tanner's sources on FamilySearch and realized no one had added original pioneer overland travel d...

This is an 1891 New York newspaper article about one of John Tanner's sons, Myron Tanner, the oldest son of his third wife, Elizabeth...

Since General Conference is coming up, here's a list of the general authorities and officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da...

I've been having a conversation with a John Tanner descendant, a distant cousin, on Facebook, and while conversing I started to wonder ...

Like I said in March 2012 , since there was no identifying information included with this daguerreotype, we will probably never be 100 p...

The other day I noted that I would post the response from the Church History Library in Salt Lake City about the daguerreotype case. He...

The Man in the Daguerreotype The daguerreotype was either taken in 1844 in Nauvoo, 1850-51 in Utah Territory, or after 1852 in Californ...

Now, to the fun part of this series: the man at the left. Is he or is he not John Tanner? Since the identities of both of the women i...

In this continuation of a long-running series about a daguerreotype now in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, I continue ...

In this continuation of a long-running series about a daguerreotype now in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, we look at...

This was originally posted on November 13, 2009. Since I have made significant revisions I am reposting it. Please note a 2014 summary of t...

I've been doing some work on John Tanner and his family. I thought it would be a simple task to put his census records into a blog pos...

And now, after a long break, we're back to the mystery of the Tanner Family Daguerreotype. If you haven't read the previous c...