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by Answers101 on March 18th, 2006

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How do I prove my lineage to an individual from England who has a coat-of-arms?

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  • by prustage on June 23rd, 2006

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    Question your family in order to find out the name, birth and death dates and area of your great-grandfather. Then use Ancestry.com to find his birth record and from that find his father etc until you find a likely candidate for the "first" of your line in the US. Then try the Ellis Island website to research immigration records from around the time you think your antecedent arrived in the US. The Ellis Island record should show where in England they left from and their previous address in England.
    Armed with this you can then search UK census and BMD records (at Ancestry.co.uk) to track down the records of that persons father, grandfather etc. Eventually, if you are connected to the English family you think you are you should find a link to them there.

    Note however, families do not have coats of arms, only INDIVIDUALS have coats of arms. It does not follow that if you find a connection with this family that you will be entitled to bear the same arms.

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