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![Show Contents]() Tarnow History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Illustrious names such as Tarnow proudly evoke images of the historic Eastern European homeland of the Polish people. Although the most common form of a hereditary surname in Poland is the "patronymic" surname, which is derived from the name of the father, there are also "local" surnames. Local surnames usually came from a fairly universal and long standing tradition of noting "where" a person came from. They were derived from place-names; where a person lived, held land, or where he was born. Over the course of its history, the boundaries of Poland changed frequently and as a result, Polish names have much in common with other Slavic names in the way they are formed and in reference to localities. Polish surnames often end with a diminutive suffix, such as -owicz, ak, ski or ska, which can be attached to local names. A "local" type of surname, the Tarnow family lived in the city of Tarnow in the region known as Malopolska, which means Little Poland. However, it was Cracow where the lineage originated. The earliest records of the House of Tarnowski date back to 1330, when a Spicimir Tarnowski, who was a member of the Cracow nobility, founded the city of Tarnow and the Melsztyn castle. Early Notables of the Tarnow family- Jan Feliks Tarnowski (1471-1507), a Polish nobleman, was Chorazy of Kraków since 1484, Starost of Belz since 1485, Stolnik of the Royal court since 1494, Castellan of Lublin since 1497, Voivode of Lub...
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Tarnow Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Henry Tarnow, aged 30, who landed in Missouri in 1849 1
| Contemporary Notables of the name Tarnow (post 1700) | + |
- Arthur Jeffrey Tarnow (1942-2022), American jurist, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2010-2022)
- Henry Tarnow, American Democratic Party politician, Candidate for Michigan State House of Representatives 65th District, 1976 2
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 27) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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Tarnow migration to the United States 
