Of surnames and coat of arms
Humans are social beings. We certainly need to know our lineage, and our origins. After all, as people we need to belong, to a nation, a community and most definitely, a family history. Needless, to say where without, we are isolated like an inhabited island. Useless, barren and bearing no future. One way of classifying one's lineage is through surnames and coat of arms . From Wikipedia, 'surnames are names added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". It is also known as a "last name" In some cultures, the surname may be a patronymic or matronymic. In some cultures, the surname comes first, followed by the given name(s) ; this is the case in Hungary, as well as China and other countries in the Far East. Japanese names are always in this order, although the Japanese commonly will revers