Do you know the ethnicity of the last name Bell?

Question:Wendy is correct. Trace your ancestors not their names and don't trust House of Names.

They have in fine print at the bottom of their page

"We encourage you to study the Bell 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."

Chances are more than one was granted to someone with the surname Bell but they aren't going to have all of them. They will just have the ones as that is all they need to sell to people. See the links below, one to the British college of arms and the other to the U. S.'s National Genealogical Society.

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

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

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

England 2123

Ireland 1122

Scotland 751

Great Britain 411

Germany 217

Prussia (now part of Germany and Poland)
43

Rootsweb(free site) has more than 436,000 entries for Bell in family trees. Just pull up the site and put Bell in the World Connect block. Once you pull up the trees, if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and the email address of the submitter.

Now, don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid.
They are user submitted and most are not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is correct.
A lot of people copy without verifying.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Wendy is correct. Trace your ancestors not their names and don't trust House of Names.

They have in fine print at the bottom of their page

"We encourage you to study the Bell 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."

Chances are more than one was granted to someone with the surname Bell but they aren't going to have all of them. They will just have the ones as that is all they need to sell to people. See the links below, one to the British college of arms and the other to the U. S.'s National Genealogical Society.

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

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

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

England 2123

Ireland 1122

Scotland 751

Great Britain 411

Germany 217

Prussia (now part of Germany and Poland)
43

Rootsweb(free site) has more than 436,000 entries for Bell in family trees. Just pull up the site and put Bell in the World Connect block. Once you pull up the trees, if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and the email address of the submitter.

Now, don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid.
They are user submitted and most are not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is correct.
A lot of people copy without verifying.

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx...

the above link goes through the history of the family name Bell. It has a lot of interesting details.. I think it's worth a read.

A person with the name Bell can be of ANY ethnicity whatsoever. If you want to know a person's ethnic background, it is related to the genetics of their ancestry.
Regarding houseofnames... Please be aware of the fact that credible and scholarly genealogical organizations consistently issue warnings about this (and any) business that claims to offer family crests/ histories that are surname based. It MAY (or may not) have semi-accurate background as to possible origins of a name, but that is absolutely no guarantee that it is of any relationship to a person with that name. As an example (with no disrespect intended at all) an African American may have that surname, which was acquired through their former slave owner. It would not mean that that person was of English heritage at all.
Wendy's slogan.. trace the person, not the surname.