1014 Georgeland Drive
Duncanville, Texas 75116

Phone: (972) 572-2792

Email: davidbappleton@att.net
URL: www.appletonstudios.com

Contact between 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm US Central

Previous Engagements:

Virginia Beach Genealogical Society, Virginia Beach, VA, 2010
Grand Prairie Genealogical Society, Grand Prairie, Texas, 2010
Friends of the Clayton Library, Houston, Texas, 2010
DFW Colony, Society of Mayflower Descendants in Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, 2009
Tyler Colony, Society of Mayflower Descendants in Texas, Tyler, Texas, 2009
Society for Creative Anachronism, Omaha, Nebraska, 2009
Texas Society of Mayflower Descendants, Arlington, TX, 2009
Delta Kappa Gamma, Duncanville, TX, 2008
BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy, Provo, UT, 2008
XXVIII International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, 2008
Scottish Genealogy Group, Illinois St. Andrew Society, 2007
Fort Worth Genealogy Society, Texas, 2007
Dallas Genealogy Society, Texas, 2006
XXVII International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2006

Specialties:

A sampling of books and articles published:

Camels In Heraldry
The Gore Roll: An Early American Roll of Arms
The Boke of St. Albans: A Modern English Rendition of a Medieval Heraldic Treatise
"A Brief Introduction to Heraldry", Retread, Newsletter of the Creative Retirement Special Interest Group of American Mensa, Inc., Issue No. 123 (Nov/Dec 2008)
"Blaisdell Coat of Arms Discredited", The Blaisdell Papers, Vol. 15, No. 4 (December 2007), p. 304
"On Heraldic Proper: a Response", Gonfanon, Newsletter of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 3-4
"a guide for 'gentill men and honest persones': An Overview of the Heraldic Portions of a Fifteenth Century Treatise: The Boke of St. Albans"; The Armiger's News, A Quarterly Journal for Members of the American College of Heraldry, Volume XXVII, Number 4 (Autumn 2005)
"Islamic Heraldry: An Introduction", The Journal for Chivalric, Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, October 2004
"Prospects at the Dawn of the Third Millennium: The Use of Computers in Heraldry"; Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Besançon, France, 2000
"The Turband: A Response"; Coat of Arms (Journal of the Heraldry Society of England), Vol. XII, No. 184, Winter 1998

Lectures:

"One Approach to Writing and Publishing Your Family History"
"The Heralds' Visitations: An Often Overlooked Genealogical Resource"
"Heraldry: History, Hobby, and Mayflower Connections"
"On-line Resources for Heraldic (and Therefore, Genealogical) Research"
"The Westford Knight: Heraldic Evidence of Pre-Columbian Scottish Explorers in America?"
"A Scottish Heraldry Workshop"
"An Introduction to Heraldry for Genealogists"
"Myth and Propaganda in the Book of St. Albans"
"The Grammar of Blazon"
"It Was Funny ... Until We Found It in a Real Coat of Arms"
"A guide for 'gentill men and honest persones': An Overview of the Heraldic Portions of the Boke of St. Albans"
"A Brief History of Heraldry, Heraldic Usage in the United States, and an Introduction to Heraldry for Genealogists"
"The Gore Roll: An 18th Century American Roll of Arms"
"New Directions in Heraldry"

Bio:

David B. Appleton (B.S., History) is an internationally-known author and lecturer who has been researching and teaching about heraldry (and its utility for genealogists) for more than a quarter of a century. This on-going interest has taken him all across the United States, Canada, and Europe to participate in and speak at conferences and symposia on the subject. He is a long-time member of a number of heraldry, genealogy, and lineage societies. In addition to his illustrated lectures and presentations, he has written several books and numerous articles for a variety of publications on the topic. You may also follow his on-line blog, "Heraldry: Musings on an esoteric topic," at: http://blog.appletonstudios.com.