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Family Crest Genealogy

Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees.  Genealogy, a popular hobby, received a big boost in the late 1970s with the premiere of the television adaptation of Alex Haley's fictionalized account of his family line, Roots: The Saga of an American Family. 

In its original form, genealogy was mainly concerned with the ancestry of rulers and nobles, often arguing or demonstrating the legitimacy of claims to wealth and power.  Nowadays, we can find lost family members, adoptees, birth families and reunite friends.  Many genealogy software programs also offer an easy method for keeping track of the sources for each fact.

Genealogy, also known as family history, is an exciting hobby enjoyed by millions of people worldwide.  Whether you've been working on your family history for years or just getting started, this genealogy site can help jump start your research.  We want to help everyone that visits, and hope to become one of your favorite providers of genealogy and family history resources.  This free genealogy site may be linked to freely for personal and commercial purposes.  Learn how to begin your online genealogy search.

Family Crests and Surnames

Family names are simultaneously one of the most important pieces of genealogical information, and a source of significant confusion for researchers.  Genealogists collect oral histories and preserve family stories to discover ancestors and living relatives.  This involves the collection of the names of relatives, both living and deceased, and establishing the relationships among them based on primary, secondary and/or circumstantial evidence or documentation, thus building up a cohesive family tree.  As more of the population began to be recorded, there were sufficient records to follow a family using the paper trail they left behind.  Genealogists locate these records, wherever they are stored, and extract information to discover family relationships and recreate timelines of persons' lives.

Records of persons who were neither royalty nor nobility began to be taken by governments in order to keep track of their citizens (In most of Europe, for example, this started to take place in the 16th century).  The history of the US Census Records is important to understand when using it as a resource to trace your ancestors.  In order to get the most information from old genealogy records that are available, you have to decipher and put meaning into the symbols you will find.  You can learn to find free genealogy records using Google's search.  Although census records remain confidential for 72 years, limited information may be obtained from more recent counts.

The use of family crests in Japan is usually said to have started in Heian era (around the year 750), but in real life even when the capital city of the country was still in Nara (around 600) some people already put on some crests on their belongings.  Samurai family crests used to be emblazoned all over the Heian carts.  These unique but beautiful graphic symbols are the traditional Japanese "family crests" that are deeply rooted in the life of the people.  Also, there family crests for Chinese surnames.  The original models of Japanese crests’ designs were familiar objects like flowers or Chinese patterns.

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