Is Name Research an Art or a Service?

Jennifer Kubenka jkubenka at sun.cis.smu.edu
Wed Jun 7 06:05:16 PDT 1995


Last night, my lord Archibald and I were working on heraldic commentary, 
as he is Nautilus Pursuivant for Elfsea, and the question came up within 
the context of commenting.

When one researches names, naming practices, etc., and then uses that to 
help other gentles with perfecting their persona names, why is it that 
the helping of the other gentles is sometimes rewarded (maybe even years 
later...) with some sort of Kingdom Award, but the actual researching, 
the digging through massive piles of information, of dictionaries, of 
annals and church registers, and so on, isn't ever even brought up for a 
Sable Thistle in Research?

Is this not research?  Is it because the results are not as tangible, 
say, as my needlework?

I do believe there is one example of a gentle receiving a Sable Thistle 
for heraldic research, and I will supply the name if you think it germane 
to this discussion.



I would really like to know what others think about this, as it is only a 
theoretical, hypothetical question, but one that my lord Archibald and I 
found interesting.

Emher ni Maille, Elfsea



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