A crest is the device the device/object attached to the top of the helm (helmet). The coat-of-arms is the armiger's device portrayed upon the shield. The crest is one component of a coat-of-arms, which can be used as a simplified symbol when the full coat-of-arms is too detailed e.g. on engraved cutlery.

2016年2月20日 · His name was used in the 19th century for a book named Neuer Siebmacher, a collection of coat of arms that was still in reprint in the 20th century. The website of Bernhard Peters states that 130.000 different coat of arms were collected in 119 volumes. He lists a vast number of digital resources (digitized books).

2020年4月22日 · Thanks for contributing an answer to Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange! Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research! But avoid … Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.

"Jess" doesn't sound like a polish name at all but it might be likely your family is from someplace which today is in Poland. A good website to compare contemporary and pre-war surname distributions in Germany (before expulsions of millions of German from Poland and Czechoslovakia) is gen-evolu.de

I follow both surnames at each generation (i.e. paternal and maternal lines), and basically go back as far as records allow me to. For each of those lines, I also project fowards in order to find the siblings, cousins, and related descendants. In effect, each ancestral line is …

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2024年8月18日 · Ancestry's Support article Entering names in your Ancestry® Family Tree discusses how to record variant first names and how to enter them in your tree. Their advice for entering unknown surnames, if you don't want to leave the field blank, is to enter five underscores:

Genealogy is a purer search for historical connectivity between generations - building a family tree or pedigree, if you like - whereas family history is a broader piece of research into their lives and activities" This is from Your Family History magazine, March 2013, Issue 38, Page 74.

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