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April 2013
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What Do The Coat of Arms Heraldic Symbols Mean? (A-H)
Heraldry Dictionary (A-H). What do the coat of arms symbols mean? Heraldry has a tradition going back centuries, and there are heraldic symbols that feature on coats of arms for every letter of the alphabet. If you are conducting your own surname history research, you may indeed have discovered coat of arms heraldic symbols within…
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Clan Campbell – Some Interesting Facts – Surname Meanings
One of the largest, most powerful and successful of the Scottish Highland clans. This is of course the Clan Campbell. They emerged as one of the most powerful families in Scotland. It is a familiar Scottish surname. Here are a few things you may not have known about the clan history of the Campbell’s… The…
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Language of Heraldry
Language of Heraldry Contrary to popular opinion, coats of arms were rarely recorded visually. That is to say in the form of a picture or drawing and this is the true language of heraldry. And so, today it is often up to the heraldic artist to render arms from a written description. As a result,…