Coat-of-Arms--Variant Surnames Legitimacy
by Audrey Shields Hancock
If one wishes to learn more about Coat of Arms, you may wish to check this
webpage:
http://www.doucetfamily.org/interest/Coat.htm
says, "However, you now know that any site that purports to sell "your
family coat of arms" is a rip-off." For the rest of the story, go to the
website.
http://www.oregonvos.net/~clenzen/heraldry.html
I posted this the other day:
http://www.houseofnames.com/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=Chaudoin
It gives these as variant surnames:
Chaudenay, Chaudenet, Chaudenez, Chaudenait, Chaudenais, Chaudenays,
Chaudenaits, Chaudenets, Chaudnay, Chaudnet, Chaudnez, Chaudnait, Chaudnais,
Chaudnays, Chaudnaits, Chaudnets, de Chaudenay and many more.
However, there is no proof that these are French variants for Chaudoin.
Like in the U.S.A. there are many variants, so perhaps this is true
elsewhere. I have added these surnames to our listing for the CHAUDOIN,
etc. Y-DNA Project. If the name exists perhaps in time we may have a
participant. If the Y-DNA matches that of the CHAUDOIN & variants surnames
of the U.S.A. then we would know that a relationship exists. However, we
have yet to even get our first participant from a U.S.A. CHAUDOIN or
variant.
I even added the surname of CHAUDRON to our DNA site, since so many give
that surname as our French ancestor without proof. Only DNA will prove
relationships, since the male Y gene is passed down through the generations
from father to son(s). Male descendants of Francois Chaudoin (no matter the
spelling) will inherit their ancestor's Y-DNA, which of course, could be the
same DNA passed on by any of his male siblings, and male cousins, etc.
inherited from his/their common ancestor.
Audrey