2. Article from "The Collection".

Continuation of the Preface of my work "Collection " at post 3.

Note-: The term haplogroup belongs to the results from Y-DNA-Chromosome-testing for descendance from the male line. It ignores matrilineal influences which are generally more determining as to who a male person may really be like. Haplogroups are labelled alphabetically from A for genetic Adam who existed 60,000 years ago (who is not necessarily biblical Adam who existed only 6,000 years ago), all through the alphabet to Q, etc. in chronological order regarding the occurrence of the mutation. I found that I belong to E1b1b1 therefore the father of all Sumerians (F), Arabs and Jews (G, I, J). Rs are Cro-Magnons and might have been the survivors of a Global Glacial and Warming Age prior to the last Glacial and present Warming Ages. We are considering a time millions of years ago when the last biological near-extinction has occurred. There have been 26 such events of biological near-extinctions in the pre-history and history of Evolution, the most devastating one has been the one of the dynosaurs who lived for 120 million years, so cheer up and have confidence in the future and try to be a bit more humble, less vane and mercenary, less acquisitive, less lusty, more generous, you poor bastards!

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Teutonic Knights, whose livery-colours were the same as the Templars’, i.e., silver and black, the latter's battle colours being however silver and red.

Incidentally/coincidentally, these were also the ancient colours of Gualchelinus de Ferrariis the Breton/Norman ancestor of the Earls of Derby. However, as this Collection shows, in Britanny/Normandie there were related families with different livery-colours, the most ancient by heraldic standards being, the one having vairee (i.e., silver et azure ), the first only COA of its category to be issued. I have been writing a book “Gens Ferreria/ Ferraria ”,in which I research among other issues, the history of the migrations of “gensferreria ”, focusing on the relatively late one from the Caspian Sea to Europe, begun in about 4,000 BC. There is in fact a pre-history of piece-meal-wise migrations to Europe from the steppes, from areas below the Ural Mountains, before and after the Last Glacial Maximum (L.G..M. ) that lasted between 23,000 and 11,000 BC. It is my belief that these people (mainly of the R and E haplogroups ) from migrations that occurred at different times in pre-history tended to find one another even across the distance of time and geographical space, as they tended to maintain and perpetuate their cultural mores (i.e., the layout and organization of their villages, their religious beliefs, speech, etc. ). It is probable that the obsessiveness in the perpetuation of racial mores to be observed in people of ancient times, may have been the concern and preoccupation with a desire/duty to find and to be found by the people left behind or that moved before them, in the course of migrations.

See Report at page 1155 of SCIENCE, VOL 290,

10 NOVEMBER 2000, at www.sciencemag.org“The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapienssapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome perspective ”. I offer two main hypothesis in my Book, one about a meeting somewhere in the Ukraine (ca. 2,000 BC ) of Semitic and Celtic tribes, the second of the arrival of these people as part of a migrating, nominally Celtic nation, to the alpine areas of Lake Geneva (Duchy of Chablais and Duchy of Aosta ) around 1,000 BC.These Celts, part of the Helvetii, Tigurini and Salassi Celtic Cisalpine Gauls, warred with the Romans since 400 BC loosing Cisalpine Gaul to them. Eventually they fought against Mario, Sulla and Caesar in 100 BC, were subdued and scattered. That is how and when they received their surname: Ferreri which was an invective or curse the roman legionaries shouted to them in their anger and frustration when suddenly attacked in ambushes on mountain-tracks. Ferreri originates in fact from the second voice of the passive, subjunctive, past tense of the irregular Latin verb: fero-tuli-latum-ferre, which is related to Latin word for iron, ferrum, which gives to this verb, through the roman way of thinking about reality, the paradoxically opposite meanings of ‘to strike, to hit, to wound, to kill, etc. ’ in parallel with ‘to bear, to suport, to suffer, etc. ’. In fact, this becomes rational, logical if and when one realizes that both a hammer and an anvil are made of iron. Incidentally, the Latin fero has links to the   Hebrew/Aramaic pharr which is however  semantically   limited to  ‘to strike, impress, glorify, being a stranger…….’ since Hebrew culture predates by far the Iron-Age during which the Romans thrived. In fact, even in the times of David, Hebrews had to buy iron tools and steal iron weapons from the Philistines. See “ A LATIN DICTIONARY ” ( Freund’s Latin Dictionary ) by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, Oxford, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1969. The invective was ‘May Thou be murdered! ’ and is similar to the extant neapolitan one ‘Ma va’ a morir ammazzato! ’ (Go and get murdered! ) which is uttered while biting one’s own index finger.This hypothesis is that these Gauls who were to become the families in “gensferreria ”, eventually adopted the invective as a badge of honour and this became their suname when dealing with the Romans after their pacification and during their collaboration.‘Gensferreria ’ did move to all parts of the Roman Empire, its members being employed as auxiliaries in their cavalries and supplying horses, training, equipment to the Roman Legions. This is the way that they and others like them, developed know-how, knowledge and experience that eventually prepared them to rise to positions of eminence at the fall of the Roman Empire of the West, in 450 AD, surviving the barbaric invasions and taking responsibility in the reconstruction of Europe during the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages.

Relatedness between these families of “gensferreria/ferraria ” did not and does not necessarily mean   blood and bone relations as shown, say, by modern  Y-DNA-Chromosome-testing that shows one’s haplogroup as determined by the male anscestor.There must have certainly been a great deal of matrilineal blood interchanges between the Semitic (E, I and J haplogroups ) and the Cro-Magnon (R haplogroup ) tribes that met somewhere in the Ukraine, and elsewhere in about 2,000 BC (for the particular, decisive-in-history, migration I am considering ), when and where they decided to co-operate in the course of their migrations.This hypothesis has been made to try to explain the presence of different haplogroups in Clans or families having related surnames. It shall be either further confirmed or denied by further tests carried out in the future, hopefully, on Ferreri, Ferrari, Ferrero, Ferrer, etc.I wish finally to thank Sir Laurence Gardner, wherever he may be hiding with his Templars and the Stuart’s heir, as he is a most elusive personality, for the expansion of my vision, not necessarily coinciding with his own, of the world, of Genesis, of the beginnings of our civilization in ancient Sumeria, my understanding of Jesus of Nazareth ( i.e., my Christology), the confirmation of the fact that Biblical History and Christianity have many skeletons and dark recesses/sides one must be aware of, all these realizations enabling me to hope to be able to synthetise the past and present in order to forge a future. Thanks to Gardner, and in a divergence from him,my involvement with Heraldry has ceased to be a useless work of genealogical charting or a lust for a personal Coat of Arms, or a searching for the proofs of descent through fallible blood and bones, from a particular personality of the past. I am seeking to understand the spirit that inspired the great personalities of the past of our civilization, in a continuum of time that began in Sumeria with people belonging to the F haplogroup.

“Gensferreria ” is a unique phenomenon in European history as it is a yet unrecognized Clan that includes people with different haplogroups such as the E , I, J, R etc. (the English Shirley have families with such a variety of haplogroups ), with surnames having the same semantic root, most probably related by blood at least through matrilineal lines, a people that has shared for millennia the experiences of the earliest migrations into Europe from the steppe and the Caspian Sea. One of the Collection’s purposes is to help to focus and judge on the relatedness of the families having the surnames originating from fero, since the Kings of Arms who designed and issued the Coat of Arms, had access to a great deal of, now lost information and had also a great deal of personal knowledge of history and traditions. Heraldry became more an more concerned in time with relatedness between families, while at the beginning being mostly concerned with differentiation for the mustering of nobles into a battle.From an overall survey of the Collection, I believe one can discern a great deal of support about the hypothesis of a strong relatedness between the families of “gensferreria ”. However, I leave the final verdict to the reader. I would like to apologise to the reader for the amateurish work of the rendering of the Coat of Arms, which is however heraldry-wise exact and have painstakingly drawn and painted by my own hand. Please remember that the principal aim of this work is not artistic but study and research, to support conclusions drawn in the mentioned Book “GensFerreria/Ferraria ”.

“NON NOBIS, NON NOBIS, DOMINE, SED MAJOR GLORIA AD NOMINEM TUUM SIT ”.