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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Avenues for ancestry/history research?” plus 4 more

Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Avenues for ancestry/history research?” plus 4 more


Question: Avenues for ancestry/history research?

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:37 PM PST

what you need is METHOD, which you can learn. The key element is, location AND TIME FRAME, to determine what documents may exist, and how to get to them. Some may be online, some may not be. No one can guarantee that you wont have to "buy" his birth certificate, however if he is living, you may not have that option. It is also defined by exactly what happened, in order for you to claim that no one knows his time and place of birth. Was he abandoned as an infant?
Unless you find a document and/or source to identify those parents, you have no means of finding ancestry.

Question: Mary Ann Mceachern death notice in 2014?

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:23 PM PST

Suggest you google search "Mary Ann Mceachern obituary 2014" I got 116,000 results one of those is this..........

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/obituari...

Question: This is a picture I tooknof my families coat of arms "Campbells" it's been in my family for generations. I was wondering imf anyone has info?

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:51 PM PST

" it's been in my family for generations" Clearly you believe this as you have been told a family story, sorry but your story is untrue, NO CLAN has Arms, no families own arms, no surnames are associated with Arms, this is a typical scam so called " family crest" don't belong to families, the crest is just the top part, it is typical as these scam merchant add the surname and sell to people who haven't a clue about Heraldry...these were first made when American servicemen were stationed over in the UK during the War and they visited stately homes and castles finding Coats of Arms on buildings and they associated them with the family who owned or lived there, it happened to be their surname too and so they assumed just because they had the same surname they were related and had copies of these made up adding their surname at the bottom and took them home as souvenirs...... thats is how it started it is now a big money making business selling these tacky products and as there is no real Heraldry in the USA ( as it is a republic) it took off there as people were desperate to associate themselves with noble or Royal ancestry.

It is not real, it hasn't been in your family for centuries, it really is typical of a made up coat of arms........... REAL coats of Arms belong to individuals, when your father dies if he was AWARDED in a ceremony a Coat of Arms then on his death the eldest son can apply to the Heralds to be awarded his Arms , again a ceremony NO ARMS that are real have a surname written underneath, the individual who was awarded it knows who he is he doesn't need his name putting on.

You have already asked once it seems you don't like the truth, so you continue to ask in the hope someone will agree with you...wait long enough and some other person who hasn't a clue and also like you believes in 'family crests' will come along and tell you what you WANT to hear and WANT to believe

Question: This is one of the camobell clan family crest and I was wondering if anyone had info or what ranks had this crest.?

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:28 PM PST

http://www.ccsna.org/jsep10a.htm#A13
is the official Clan Campbell web site. It says:
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In Scottish heraldry there are NO "Clan Arms" or "Family Coats of Arms", whatever those attempting to sell you 'authentic' arms may state. The arms of the Chief, or of any individual, are their personal property and in Scots law may not be displayed except where indicating their presence or authority.

In Scotland the control of heraldry is equal in a certain sense to the United States registration of official seals and trade marks. It is official in law. The Lord Lyon is the Monarch's 'Supreme Officer of Honour in Scotland' to whom all heraldic matters have been delegated. He is a Judge of the Realm with considerable powers. While it can be argued correctly that Scots law does not extend beyond Scotland, members of Scottish clans and clan societies outside Scotland have an obvious vested interest in upholding the Scottish laws governing that clan's heraldry.

Every Scot granted arms is distinct from each other. Preference of the individual is taken into account subject to the laws of arms in designing new coats. Campbells display some version of the gyronny of eight which marks them as descendants of the forebears of the Chiefs of Clan Campbell.
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"gyronny of eight", mentioned in the last paragraph are those eight triangles that make a square. I used Google Images for "Campbell family crest" and found lots, including the one you have - and proved that Google is just as bad as you. The "Crest" is that boar or wolf (it is drawn poorly; whatever it is, it has really big bottom teeth) the top. The whole thing is a coat of arms.

This one, I would bet, was given to or bought by a sailor. His eldest legitimate son inherits it. No one else should use it, until the eldest legitimate son dies, then HIS eldest legitimate son gets it, and so on.

It isn't like captains had one version and colonels another, or dukes and viscounts; each person who is awarded one or buys one gets a unique one, and they keep it for life, no matter how far up the chain they go.

Question: From what nation does the surname Zimochod originate?

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:24 PM PST

No nation, surnames are words and all words come from languages, languages are spoken in many different nations and as language spreads, it also can develop and mix with other languages, so you can get new words.......... this word? There are no genealogy records I could find which may give a clue to the language its from ( might not) certainly some people have this word as a surname, all that I found are in English speaking countries but is is not an English language word or English language surname..research your ancestry via the records of the individual person and you will ind origin of the people.surname hunting will not tell you

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