A Primer of Heraldry for Americans
Author: Edward Singleton Holden
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 186
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Author: Edward Singleton Holden
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Woodcock
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780192802262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by Officers of Arms with full access to the College of Arms Library, this guide to heraldry covers the origins of heraldry, the composition of arms and their visual appearance, and the use of arms as decorations
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 398
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Complete Guide to Heraldry" by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Kevin Greaves
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1459710835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeraldry is now. Heraldry is fun. And most of all, heraldry is Canadian! A Canadian Heraldic Primer dispels, once and for all, the myth that coats of arms are boring, snobbish, mediaeval holdovers that have no relevance today. Using cartoons, humour, and not a little irreverence (in which is concealed a surprising amount of information), Kevin Greaves explains the history behind heraldry's unique conventions and language, and explores its creative possibilities. He shows heraldry as part of the fabric of Canada's past, present, and future, and illustrates how this lively art has become livelier since Canada became master of its own heraldic system in 1988.
Author: Alan Beddoe
Publisher: Belleville, Ont. : Mika Publishing Company
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: François Weil
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0674076370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage. Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world.
Author: Alicia M. G. Graham
Publisher: Alicia M. G. Graham
Published: 2023-05-11
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book both for the reader with a casual interest in ancestry, and the serious researcher of Scottish genealogies. It starts by tracing the ancestry of the Grahams of Grayville, Illinois, to Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the course of following their trails to Ireland and Scotland, the author amasses a library of church history, geography, archaeological data, land records, DNA, military and other historical records that stretches as far back as the first recorded Graham in Scotland, William de Graham. This collection of reference data is preserved in the appendices to assist researchers of Scots-Irish ancestry, not just Grahams. Our Grahams of Pennsylvania and Virginia also includes information on related clans such as the Kirkpatricks, Corries, Murrays, and Armstrongs and provides a new perspective on Scottish history and the origin of the Scottish people using the latest Y-DNA and archaeological data available. It breaks new ground and punctures some long-held misconceptions of family genealogies. It also postulates theories that would explain the facts and circumstances behind several major events, as well as family connections, and legends of Scottish history. Additional DNA testing may eventually prove which theories are correct. Our Grahams of Pennsylvania and Virginia contains a treasure of reference material that can be used by researchers of all levels. It is meticulously researched, fully sourced, and provides access information for almost all source material.