[ANSTHRLD] A question for the more experienced heralds, please

[Crandall]

Here is my classic example of search engine based
conflict checking that sometimes missed, due to
blazoning quirks. I do not know if the new
software would have caught it. 
You will see that the difference in these two
items is the tincture, type and number of
secondaries. Some have even said they are
tertiaries. You put them next to each other and
it feels that Alexander and I are somehow
related. 

Enoch Crandall mac Cranon
The following badge associated with this name was
registered in August of 1989 (via Ansteorra):
Argent, a pile between two broadarrows gules,
overall a chevron counterchanged. 

Alexander Peregrine
The following device associated with this name
was registered in May of 1999 (via Ansteorra):
Argent, a pile gules and overall a chevron
counterchanged, in chief a fleur-de-lys argent.


--- Britt <tierna.britt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/8/07, Luciana Caterina di Borghese
> <dolce.luce at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was surfing the net and ran across a
> website,
> > http://www.goldenstag.net/OandA, where I
> found a downloadable application to
> > use to run conflict checks, etc. This looks
> like a wonderful thing to me,
> > but I know that I have a tremendous amount to
> learn.
> >
> > Is this really as wonderful an idea as I am
> hoping that it is?
> 
> Hirsch has apparently updated his code.
> 
> I recommend that you learn to conflict check by
> manually going through
> the Ordinary categories before relying on any
> search programs,
> honestly.  I've been doing this awhile and
> there are idiosynchracies
> in the listed blazons that sometimes even slip
> past Morsulus' attempts
> to coherently categorlize them.  That we cannot
> help, but I've always
> been willing to pit my personal skills against
> any computer-aided
> conflict checking to see who's better, and
> haven't lost yet.
> 
> I am not on a PC, unfortunately, so cannot
> stress-test the program
> (find out if I'm looking for argent dogs does
> it bring up the beagle
> and saluki, does it find slow matches when
> searching for annulets, if
> you're conflict checking a borage flower will
> it pull up the roses,
> and other odd little things that are out
> there).
> 
> But before relying on a program, learn the
> old-fashioned way.  Rare it
> was that someone who wasn't a herald versed in
> conflict checking sent
> in a submission thety'd found clear that didn't
> get returned at
> kingdom for glaring conflict in my tenure as
> submissions herald.  You
> need to know what to look for before you can
> find it.  Once you've got
> the basics down, you might very well be able to
> employ Hirsch's lovely
> effort and get good results.
> 
> - Teceangl