Dear Listeners,
For those of you who are searching for family housemarks and crest history,
as you may already know Karl G. Homeyer (Berlin) 1800s book now available
for down load or on line.
Via Go ogle at:
German site at:
Download size is 22.5 MB and defaults to PDF Adobe.
It is in pure photo format so make sure you have upgrade your for free to
Adobe 8.1.1
Also note pure photo format will allow page search/find - but Will NOT allow
word find (in free google format download)
The first index is by region or town = example Lippe page 105; Greifswald-
Stolp; Warbelow/ Warschow; Lubeck page 56; Jeverland 380; etc.
The images are listed by Roman numeral table = example Rugen is Tafel XX
Also indexes by name within towns starts on page 375 of book
Information pages on standard occupational identity marks also available in
first 3rd of book
And useful notes on how to decipher old handwriting
Some individual family houses are noted = example Manor of Aston
Most graphics start around pages 457 and 461 on ward.
Many early trade identities of the Teutonic and others carried into family
crests
For example in my Homeyer family the hand sickle/ longbow matchlock had a
letter associated with it
Many of you will be impressed by how old your house mark symbols really are
as some are Rune based.
This has been helpful for me in researching Poland, East Germany, old
Prussia and some of my Russian family.
I found more people in one night than I found in 3 months.
Good Luck to you all and may God speed
Pam Homeyer
Little Rock AR USA central time
(hope9@comcast.net)