Hi All, For those of you who may not know about Dick Eastman's Weekly Online Genealogy Newsletter or choose not to subscribe (it's Free) the following article, which some or maybe many of you may find interesting, was included in the Sunday, 29 Nov 1998 edition. If anyone is interested in subscribing to Eastman's Newsletter I will be glad to tell you how. Dick Dutton ============================================== The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1998 by Richard W. Eastman and Ancestry, Inc. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. ============================================ - Heraldry Newsletter I was pleased to see another e-mail newsletter appear this week: The Feudal Herald is billed as an "Online Newsletter from the Baronage Press." This English company is well known as one that provides high-quality information and educational services about heraldry. If you are not familiar with the word "heraldry," it refers to coats of arms and other armorial designs. The Baronage Press is also very active in exposing the "bucketshops" -- those scam artists who claim to sell you a copy of your so-called family coat of arms. Instead, the Baronage Press presents high-quality information that has been carefully researched. Quoting from issue #1 of The Feudal Herald: OUR PURPOSE All students of heraldry are aware of those periods in its history when its art sank very low in both quality and taste, and most will be especially sad now, when new technology has provided western civilisation with splendid tools capable of producing beautiful art, to recognise the depths to which the bucketshops have sunk. Famous international news magazines have printed pictures of "coats of arms" produced for the presidents of South Africa and of the United States of America, inventions of dreadful quality, and although these journals have rightly poured scorn on the bucketshops that produced them, criticism of their appalling taste has been muted. We intend to plead the case for a return to the basic principles of classical heraldic art, and to republish illustrations that will inspire modern artists to emulate the best of the ancients. The table of contents in the first edition lists the following articles: * A Welcome and an Explanation * Our Purpose * Classical Heraldry Today * Diana's Heraldry * The Constitution * Scams - Bucketshops Online * Descendants of "Braveheart" * Growth in Genealogical Activity * JAG-1: Heraldry and Titles * Heraldic Badges * Looking Around: The Burlington Arcade * Pegasus Armorie * Heraldic Home Pages * Our Sponsors and Advertisers You can read the Feudal Herald online at: http://www.baronage.co.uk/nl/nl-01-01.htm To have the Feudal Herald automatically delivered to your e-mail address, send an e-mail message to: subscribe@baronage.co.uk The message title is of no importance. The first line of the message text must be: "subscribe feudalherald" followed with your first and last names. For example, if your name is John Smith, your message would read: subscribe feudalherald John Smith (Note the use of lower case.) Nothing else should be included in the message text. It's nice to see more and more e-mail newsletters appear. I hope the folks at the Baronage Press have a runaway success with this one. ============================================================