Knowing more about your family and your ancestors is becoming ever more popular, for many people around the world today. When we enter homes of military personnel or indeed any home with a sense of family pride, we can see the Family Coat of Arms and other products displayed conspicuously around the entrance, family room or hall.
Where Do We Get Information – A Guide to Family Roots Gifts
One of the great ways to find out more about our past initially is to get in touch with living relatives both at home and abroad. Make sure that you can record the conversations or at least write it down. From your living relatives you can in some cases go back two and possibly three generations.
The Irish Genealogical Guide has a five volume series of indexes to Irish Wills going back to the year 1445. Here you will get peoples names, addresses and other references.
Did you know that in olden times were required to provide information such as the names of their tenants and also the sub-tenants along with their occupations, the area in which they lived, the amount of rent being collected. This is a very valuable source of information and must not be overlooked for getting in touch with your family roots.
Quaker Family Roots Records
Abstracts of wills will include valuable information about family roots including the individual’s name, address and the year the will was settled. Family occupations close and extended relations are also mentioned in the abstracts of these wills.
The Quakers arrived in Ireland in the early seventeenth century, and kept a great system of family records from that period right up to the present day. The records were of all members which will include their names, births, marriages and of course the deaths also.
The Quakers held monthly meetings throughout the length and breadth of Ireland in places such as Carlow, Cork, Limerick, Moumtmellick in County Laois, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Antrim and many other places also. They have recorded extensive information and are a great starting point in your search for family roots information. Engrave family crest rings for members of your family as a gift.
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Military Records – United States Army and other Services
One of the sources that many people use to trace there family roots is military records, such as Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps. For those families whose origins hail from Europe and who today, are living in the United States, Australia, Canada and other parts of the world this is a very valuable source. You will find that most immigrants have either served themselves or will have had a relative who served. Service members wear military rings to display their family roots in the military.
Most people start their research by getting to know their Coat of Arms and family motto if they have one. In the great Castles of Europe for centuries past right up until the present day you will observe tapestries and plaques displaying the arms and crests of the inhabitants also medieval shields and swords associated with battles they were involved in.