Quote Originally Posted by georgeblack7 View Post
Most of those websites forget to take into account different sects with the same name. The English, Scots, and Irish all had different groups that appeared throughout time with the same surname, but no relation.
Exactly! Like mine- Wolfe. There is Wolff (Irish, as in Harlan & Wolff, the ship builders of Titanic), and there is the Scottish lowland/border family (my great grandfather) and the English family (as in Colonel James of Culoden 1745 distinction- only British officer who refused direct orders to shoot wounded Jacobites.) We all come from the Saxon Wuffinga tribe, but the three really aren't directly related as far as I know. However, the English Wolfe coat of arms had some really nice elements in it, so as a graphic designer myself, I took one of those elements and adapted it to a design suitable for a (very beautiful!!) A_Hay leather sporran. And I have a traditional coat of arms- as in one that is mine and mine alone.