Monthly Archives: January 2009

genealogical tourism — Savannah

Sunday, January 25, 2009

So here I am in Savannah, on a rare occasion when I’ve accompanied my wife to an academic conference but we have not brought any children. Aside from blessed sleep, I’ve been able to be a genealogical tourist when on my own. As it turns out my wife has distant roots in Savannah, [...]

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the Delafield quarterings (English arms for Americans)

Saturday, January 24, 2009

John Ross Delafield (1874-1964), a scion of New York’s pre-Gilded Age oligarchy, appears to have been the man who invented the 20th-century practice of honorary grants of arms by the College of Arms for the use of Americans of English (or British) descent.

Delafield as a general; frontispiece to
Delafield: The Family History, vol. 2 (1945)
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