I am researching the origin of my last name, Mulder. Any help would be appreciat

Question:See the links below

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

Family crest is a misnomer for coat of arms. The Crest is part of the coat of arms.

At the bottom of its page, House of Names has in fine print, "We encourage you to study the Mulder genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest. . . . . . . . . . No families, not even royal houses, can make sound claim to the right to bear arms unless a proven connection is established through attested genealogical records."

Ancestry.Com shows the following given as the place of origin of Mulder immigrants to the U. S.

Netherlands 94

Holland 87

Germany 60

England 7

Amsterdam, Netherlands 7

Ireland 6

Meanings

1. Dutch occupational name from mulder 'miller'

2. German occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle High German mulde'bowl' ' trough' 'tub'

3. variant of Muller 'miller'

The same name can come from more than one national origin and not everyone with the same name is related, even those of the same national origin.

Rootsweb(free site) has almost 20,000 entries in family trees for Mulder. Just pull up the site and put Mulder in the World Connect Block. Once it takes you to the trees, if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Now don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid.
The information is user submitted and most is not documented. Even when you see the same information over and over by many different submitters, that does not guarantee it is correct. A lot of people are copying without verifying.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: See the links below

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

Family crest is a misnomer for coat of arms. The Crest is part of the coat of arms.

At the bottom of its page, House of Names has in fine print, "We encourage you to study the Mulder genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest. . . . . . . . . . No families, not even royal houses, can make sound claim to the right to bear arms unless a proven connection is established through attested genealogical records."

Ancestry.Com shows the following given as the place of origin of Mulder immigrants to the U. S.

Netherlands 94

Holland 87

Germany 60

England 7

Amsterdam, Netherlands 7

Ireland 6

Meanings

1. Dutch occupational name from mulder 'miller'

2. German occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle High German mulde'bowl' ' trough' 'tub'

3. variant of Muller 'miller'

The same name can come from more than one national origin and not everyone with the same name is related, even those of the same national origin.

Rootsweb(free site) has almost 20,000 entries in family trees for Mulder. Just pull up the site and put Mulder in the World Connect Block. Once it takes you to the trees, if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Now don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid.
The information is user submitted and most is not documented. Even when you see the same information over and over by many different submitters, that does not guarantee it is correct. A lot of people are copying without verifying.

It's dutch and Welsh...

My personal opinion is that houseofnames is not a reliable source in any way.
Names can come from more than one area/country. The best way of being accurate, is tracing back to your immigrant ancestor, and finding his/her origin. MANY people, when they actually research the persons, will find that the last name is different from what they believed to begin with.