How knowing more about your Family Name can help....
Your Family Name – the Legacy from Your Ancestors.
Do you want to get started on researching your Family Tree and need to understand how your Family Name History can help?
Let me start by giving the backdrop as to why your Family Name is so important. Have you ever been disturbed if your good name has been taken for granted? For one thing, this name does represent what generations of your family have stood for. Perhaps more important is that your family name is a legacy, handed down by your ancestors, to keep your family united. That is a powerful legacy and goes higher than any value we can imagine.
In practical terms, when you read your detailed Family Name History, your attention will be drawn to the variant spellings of your family name that are found in the revealing text of your history. As language has evolved over the centuries so has the spelling of family names. A name with a specific spelling centuries ago, say in the 1500′s, can appear entirely different in it’s modern spelling and may have changed a few more times in the years in between. In fact, name spellings could change even within the same generation – with a birth recorded in one spelling and the death of the same person with a different spelling used. Why this is important to family tree research becomes fairly obvious when you embark on this “detective” work as it is sometimes referred to. You will be reading about potential relatives and seeing various spellings in the records. By understanding more about these variant spellings you can properly make the links.
Now let’s consider vision, because having some can be useful as you embark on searching your family’s genealogy – sometimes a little imagination can help you go down a certain route. That’s where the backdrop of your Family Name History can set your mind in the mood to imagine – so read it over and over.
Many people have told me their Family Name History, and the conversation it generated with their relatives, acted as a strong motivator that inspired them to start on their Family Tree. It tended to remove the mystery and clear away the mental block which stood in the way of making an effective start.
You can get your detailed Family Name History which also includes a full color rendering of the Coat of Arms listed under your family name – just Click Here.
If you are ready to start on the research for your family tree there is a fabulous resource called Ancestry.com and many people have told me they got a long way back in their family genealogy by using this website.
The more you understand your Family Name the more you will appreciate your legacy - it’s your heritage
Do remember that “a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step” so the time to begin is now.
