[Genealib] Help needed ... The Little Brown Box

[Ceya]

Does anyone know of an Internet site where Coats of Arms are shown and stray 
ones can be researched (for pay or whatever)???

We have, in our family, a little, fadded, worn leather box (about a 3 inch x 
5 inch) that my deceased father-in-law always kept in his top 
chest-of-drawers for collecting his pennies.   For years, I thought that 
there was nothing on the lid; but, I was trying to clean it and a 
coat-of-arms just popped out at me!   This was a thrill and... a puzzle! 
Whose coat-of-arms was this???

My father-in-law's father, Joseph Minder, of Jaroslaw, Poland came to 
America in 1884; he came to the New York/New Jersey area to live with his 
sister, Pearl Minder Schneck and her husband, a Jewish scribe.  Pearl and 
her husband had come to America before 1884 and they had about 17 children.

Joseph Minder, also had a brother, Henry Minder who lived (later years) in 
Yonkers, New York.  By 1900, Joseph Minder had married an Alabama girl, and 
moved to Athens, Georgia.  He owned and operated a tailor shop until his 
death in 1949.  His brother, Henry Minder, was also a tailor; but, in New 
York.    Later... there was another brother, Isadore Minder, who eventually 
settled in Macon, Georgia; he was also a tailor.


The family is said to have been from Jaroslaw, Poland.   I would love to 
know if this is their coat-of-arms for the Minder surname or if it is 
connected to this family in any way.

Please send me to some useful site to research this further.

Thank you!

Ceya Minder
Alabama
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