Saturday - Session 6A1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Armories and Ordinaries: Coats of Arms for Genealogists
Presented by Sebastian Nelson
Coats of Arms use colors, shapes, and symbols to visually encode genealogical information. Learn about some of the bizarre creatures, fanciful monsters, and cunning puns that are found in heraldry. Join Sebastion Nelson for an entertaining introduction to the basic techniques and resources available to decode Coats of Arms and unlock the genealogical stories behind them.
Session Handout: Click here.
Sebastian Nelson is an Archivist at the California State Archives and a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. He has a Master’s degree in Library Science from San Jose State University, and a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Oxford in Great Britain, where he studied Coats of Arms as a graduate student.
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