THE FAMILY CREST
or Coat of Arms

 

FIRST, THE TRUTH MUST BE DRAGGED OUT INTO THE DAYLIGHT
AND BE REVEALED TO ALL: Only a few historical families in certain parts of Europe - and some of their descendants in America - have a heritage that includes family crests, coats of arms, heraldry and such. The FULKERSON surname as detailed in this web site does NOT have a family crest.

Anyone who tries to sell you anything concerning a FULKERSON family crest
is practicing pure bunkum and is only interested in taking your money.


  There are TWO indisputable reasons why we do not have a family crest:
  1. First, the Scandinavian "Volckertszen" name ("son of Vokert") from which our Fulkerson name evolved was a PATRONYMIC name. Further, it was based on a Volkert who was born in America and whose last name was Dircks. We didn't have a continuous family surname that we can attribute to European origins

  2. Second, we gradually adopted the English "Fulkerson" spelling of our surname more than a century after we left Europe.

  It's possible that Dirck came to America with a sort of family symbol. His "signature" appears on several documents dated in 1651, 1658 and 1661. Some Norwegian genealogists corresponded with me in the late 1990s. They interpreted Dirck's mark as a bumerke, which was a type of family symbol (similar to a brand) used in 16th-century Norway. (See Dirck's signatures.)

THE FULKERSON FAMILY CREST CONTEST

  The 400th anniversary of our family's arrival in America is just a few decades away. So, this might be a good time to have a contest to design a family crest. There does seem to be some demand for one.

  Of course, the winning design won't have European origins or any of the all-important snobbery that so often goes with such such things, but it would represent an authentic, historic ancestry....and it would be better if it was made by Fulkersons rather than by some fly-by-night publishing outfit.

  Feel welcome to submit your own design. Mine appears below. No, it doesn't following any of the rules of heraldry, but those are pretty much out the window anyway. Send in your ideas and let the voting begin! The winner will receive five (5) copies of the Fulkerson CD.

FAMILY CREST CONTEST:
 
Symbolizing Dirck's signature and the Fulkerson history in farming, pioneering, the military, the Revolution and the Civil War using colors and images Send your design
Above Submitted by:
Robert Fulkerson		 Above Submitted by:
Kirk Fulkerson
 
Send your design Send your design
Your design?Your design?