Re: Surname meaning/coat of arms search
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Re: Surname meaning/coat of arms search
3/26/99
Good luck with your searches, but just a word of... not quite advice, but info, perhaps: Coats of arms were granted to individuals, not families. Each individual who was entitled to use the coat of arms of- say- their father, had their own device superimposed on that coat of arms to distinguish it from the original. What I'm getting at is there is no such thing as a "Family" coat of arms, merely one that at one time belonged to a specific member of the given family.
Just a thought.
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Re: Surname meaning/coat of arms search
Thomas Murray 8/11/01