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Family Name History

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Family Name History, Classic edition created on  11″ x 14″ parchment stock. Learn the meaning, origin and earliest documented references to your last name. Names from all countries are available. Free US domestic shipping.

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Family Name History, Classic edition created on 11″ x 14″ parchment stock. Learn the meaning, origin and earliest documented references to your last name. Names from all countries are available. Free US domestic shipping.

Our research covers millions of Family names from all over the world.

You are linked to the past by your family name, which has been in existence for hundreds – perhaps thousands – of years. What is its origin? Was it taken from the name of a village… an occupation… an ancient historical landmark? Who were your namesakes who proudly bore this family name? With the assistance of the Historical Research Center, Old World Family Names can now solve these mysteries and present you with a unique Family Name History. It will reveal the origin and meaning of your name, its category, original spellings and the earliest found records relating to the name as well as a written description of the Coat of Arms.

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CHRC joined with FindMyPast to make historical parish baptismal and marriage records available to the public. Pre-1919 records are on-line and can be searched and downloaded.  Also available are the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Diocesan Newspapers,  from 1833-Sept. 28, 1951 with some gaps when either issues were missing or a newspaper was not published. Click  here  for information about Catholic newspapers in Philadelphia. 

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For my service in 1967 I received a Bronze Star and 12 Oak leaf Clusters that represented over 300 combat missions. Coming back from Viet Nam I went to work as a mechanic. Opened my own shop in 1972.

After 20 years of bending over hoods, rolling around on the floor, and building engines old injuries from Nam flared up.  I decided that it was time to find some other way to make a living. My search led me to the heraldry business and to The Historical Research Center.

HRC is a firm that specializes in onomastic and heraldic research. With the most comprehensive research library of its kind in the world, an existing database of over 1,000,000 names, and a staff of highly trained specialists, who are able to provide the most accurate information currently available about the meaning and origin of family names, as well as the coats of arms associated with them.

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Regarding the Guyette family – “I found your help invaluable in finding so much information. Your help, kindness & dedication made me feel welcome in your center. You all went out of your way to answer my questions & were so willing to find old family photos & records, as well as make copies. Thank you so much!”

Marti Grubenhoff Denver, Colorado

“Thank you very much for your assistance and encouragement last month during my visit to Sheboygan Falls. I was trying to identify any connection to my ancestor, James D. Bemis of Canandaigua, NY, to the Wisconsin Bemis family and if there is any connection to Rochester, NY. Thanks to your help…I now have a better insight into those questions…Thanks again for your assistance and encouragement!”

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Many thanks for the amazing response to my request for information about Edward F. Zinns and his Milwaukee Graphite Company. For a quarter-century I was Head of Reference at the State Archives of Michigan, so I know good public service when I see it. Thanks for monitoring your business email after-hours. Given the caliber of the service you provide, I am not surprised. Your outstanding work on my behalf needs to be rewarded, and I would like to show my gratitude with a donation to your institution.

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The collection at the Historical Research Center contains more than 1.5 million documents and more than 750,000 images.

The collection is comprised of things like scrapbooks, research books on genealogical topics and history, school yearbooks, State of Wisconsin blue books, church histories and anniversary books, tax records, diaries and biographies, local history books written by local authors about many of Sheboygan County’s villages, Garton Toy catalogs, Phoenix Chair and other furniture company catalogs and Sheboygan Press newspapers.

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