Id love to know my heritage?

Question

My last name is tyree

my dad says irish and my mom says canadian so i have no idea

i understand it could be both but where does tyree come from

Answer 1

Tyree  

First name origin & meaning:

Irish and Scottish:

Tyree is an Island off Scotland

Last name origin & meaning:

Scottish: Anglicized derivative of McIntyre.

McIntyre  

Last name origin & meaning:

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSaoir ‘son of the craftsman’. Compare Irish McAteer.

McAteer    

Last name origin & meaning:

Northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an tSaoir ‘son of the craftsman’.

Shirley T. is correct, and gives good advice, if you want to know your real heritage you must trace your family history back, one generation at a time, it is not possible to start with a name origin and work down until you get to today!

Answer 2

House of Names is a coat of arms peddler.

Coats of arms (misnomer family crest) do not belong to surnames.  They were and are granted to individuals and are passed down to the direct legitimate male line descendants.   Sometimes a female inherited her father's coat of arms if there was no male descendant.

There might have been, for instance, 15 different individual men with the same surname, not all necessarily related, each granted their own coat of arms, all different.

No one peddler that sells them on the internet, at shopping malls, in airports, in magazines or solicit by mail will have all 15, no way.  They don't need to in order to sell to people.  The only time they will have more than one is if more than one individual with the same surname from different national origins were granted a coat of arms. Then they will have one of each and there might have been several of each.

See the links below, one from the British College of Arms(they grant coats of arms),one regarding Scottish coats of arms, and the other from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.bothwell.cx/arms.shtml

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

The best way to know your heritage is to search it one generation at a time starting with yourself.  When you get so far back work on one family line and if you run into a brickwall set it aside and work on another.

Start with your living family and get as much information from them as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you.  They might be confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might turn out to be very significant.  

Find out if any family has any old family bibles.  Ask to see and make copies of birth, marriage and death certificates.  Also depending on the faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates contain family information.

Go to your public library and check out the genealogy section. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can use.

Ancestry.Com has lots of records and seems to be getting more all the time. They have all the U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet.  They have U.K. censuses also.

They have immigration records, indexes of vital records from many states, veteran records etc.  

Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in their family trees or family trees in ANY website, free or paid.  The information is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different subscribers on the same people that is no guarantee it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.  Use the information as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons.

In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection.  Their Family History Center can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.  Just call them or visit their free website at FamilySearch.org to find their hours for the general public.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries  by to ring my doorbell.  I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else either. They are just very nice and helpful.

While you are at your library or the Family History Center, you will probably have an excellent opportunity to talk with other researchers and that is always a valuable source for all of us.

Cyndi'sList.Com has a lot of websites for genealogy purposes, some are free and some are not.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

scottish

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx...

The surname Tyree is of Scottish origin.It is derived from the name McIntyre. Which means son of a craftsman. This family originated from Argyllshire in Scotland

your fathers half right....irish colonized in scottland apparently in 200ad-850.....

well of course u dont have to go to house of names,but bottom line is,the names scottish...any research will confirm  that.