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Question:It can be family crests, genealogy(family members),history, orgins(though I know it is Italian), and anything else you have.Tanxs!!!!!!!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It can be family crests, genealogy(family members),history, orgins(though I know it is Italian), and anything else you have.Tanxs!!!!!!!

One of the first places to start is by Googling the surname, adding 'genealogy', if you are looking for family trees.

Genealogy Today is one of the sources that comes up and among the links there is Roots Web.

http://www.genealogytoday.com/surname/fi...

You can find out a good deal on the Internet for free but you will probably find that eventually you will need to pay to access some databases. It depends how interested you are and how valuable you feel the information is to you as to whether you think the charges are reasonable or not - they may be of the order of $10 to $20, for example, to access further details of the records, but what you get varies.

It is usually helpful to start with parents and grandparents and to try to work backwards.

Family crests are something one should be careful about. Many companies offer to find a crest for one's family based on the surname but not all surnames may have a crest and only certain branches of some families may have one. These firms will, very often, find a crest related to the name but whether your family is entitled to use it is a very different matter! It is far better (and more fun) to do your own research, which, in your case, may take you on holiday to Italy!

Gaspar is a not uncommon common first name (it was traditionally the name of one of the Three Kings who bore gifts to the infant Jesus). Gasparini, I believe, may mean 'little Gaspar' or, perhaps, 'Gaspar Junior'.

The surname or family name is a relatively modern invention in Europe and people were very often distinguished only by their father's first name or by a nickname until an increase in mobility and legal concerns required many people to take a surname. The use of surnames in England became general by about 1400 and much later than that in Scotland and Wales (I have no information about Italy). This is why we have surnames based on a trade, such as Smith or Archer, or a place, such as Washington, or on a personal name like Williamson or Johnson.

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Many Italian last names end in -ini, -ino, -etti, -etto, -ello, and -illo, all of which mean "little." (Michelini, Albertini)
The boy's name Gaspar is possibly Persian meaning "he who guards the treasure." Caspar is a variation.

There is no such thing as a family crest. A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. If this is a school assignment, please print off the following links and give them to your teacher along with a copy of any that you see on the web with your surname underneath it. One is regarding Italian heraldry, one from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society and one from the British College of Arms who grants coats of arms to British and some Americans.

http://www.regalis.com/onom.htm

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

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

There might be, for instance, 15 different coats of arms, one granted to 15 different individuals named Gasparini. The peddlers that sell them on the internet, at shopping malls, at airport, in magazines or solicit by direct mail won't have all 15, not by a long shot. They don't need to in order to sell to gullible people. Now if the same surname is found in more than one country and there were coats of arms granted to persons with that name in more than one country, the descendants of snake oil salesmen that sell them will have one of each, when in fact there might have been 5 of each.

Anytime you go into someone's home and see one of those dinky little walnut plaques on their den wall, they are just displaying one that was granted to someone with their surname and might not even be related. Now politeness requires that we don't laugh at people, particularly in their own homes.

Feel free to print off what I have posted here also and give to your teacher.

Rootsweb (free site) has 194 entries in family trees for Gasparini. Just put the Gasparini or a full name in the Rootsweb block and it will take you to a screen and probe World Connect. 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 email address of the submitter. Just be careful not to take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The info is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different subscribers on the same people that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. The information can be very useful as clues as to where to get the documentation.

http://www.rootsweb.com/

Italian

If you want to look for symbols assigned to the someone in the past with that name, you can check houseofnames.com