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Question: Where can i find where my last name came from and family crest!?
my last name is lopezWww@QuestionHome@Com


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Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’)!. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames!.
source: Ancestry!.com
A 'family crest' is a myth!. It comes from a coat of arms, but they were generally granted to specific lineages and not surnames!.

You can enter "Lopez coat of arms" into Google and probably find some so called family crests!. Here is a link to a common coat of arms for Lopez: http://www!.rushings!.info/images/lopez!.gi!.!.!. - Another British arms records just the wolf's head and several others were recorded in Bolton's American Arms!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The only sure way to know where your last name came is from your male-line genealogy!. My last name was made up when my great-grandfather immigrated to hide his country of birth!.

According to Ancestry!.com: "Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope (from Latin lupus ‘wolf’)!. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames!."

According to another site: "The meaning of the surname LOPEZ is - the descendant of Lope or Lupe (wolf)!. "

Surname coats of arms are bogus!. How did the myth of surname arms start!? A clever marketer took some heraldry books and made a database of many coats of arms!. Instead of recording the actual person who bore the arms, he just associated a surname with each one (often the surname of the original armiger)!. The point of this scam was to increase the number of people who would identify with a particular design, even though by tradition using an unrelated person's arms is theft!. This clever scam has made millions for the con artists and made fools of many people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/LopezWww@QuestionHome@Com

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