I'm really new to this list and have seen oodles of information on Turners, but I'm a TARNER!! Am I doing something wrong? Am I on the wrong page? I was under the impression that this site had to do with Turners, Tanners, Toerners, Tarners, and all the other variations on the same theme. I LOVE what I see happening here with Turner information and want to find the same kind of thing for us Tarners. There aren't very many Tarners in this country, but our research so far has led us to be almost certain that all of us are related to each other in one way or another. We've all traced our respective Tarner lines back to a John Tarner (my paternal ggg grandfather) who was born about 1782 and owned property in Pennsylvania in the early 1800's, and died 6/Oct/1855 in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, PA. Family lore in our line has it that he was Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and that some of his children and grandchildren were Dunkards (River Bretheren, I think). If there are any Tarners out there who are interested in the information we have, we'd be happy to share, and, of course, would love any informaiton you could give us that would fill in some of the gaps in our larger Tarner family tree. Does anyone, anyone at all, know anything about any tangible connection between Turners and Tarners-- I mean, actual instances of families known as Tarner changing their name to Turner or vice versa? I've discovered that in Polish and Italian websites and some other european sites whose languages I don't recognize, the name Turner becomes Tarner when it passes from English into those languages, as, for instance, in news releases about Tina Turner and Ted Turner. When those two names turn up in those sites, they're always spelled 'Tarner' instead of 'Turner.' Why wouldn't the name stay the same? Does anyone have any idea what's going on there? Would love some help on this mystery. Thanks for listening. Sandra (Tarner) Wagner