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My last name is Teats , what Heritage is it though?

I'm Irish , Scottish, German, Pa Dutch,Polish, Welsh,Indian, and some others but i forget , what does my name sound like it would belong to in any heritage?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: BEWARE OF COAT OF ARMS PEDDLERS
There are no laws regarding heraldry in the United States and there are people who will sell you one based on your surname without documented proof that you are a direct descendant of the person who was granted the coat of arms. They are all over the internet and I believe they are descendants of snake oil salesmen.

You are free to display one without the documented proof in the United States but it is like putting up a picture of a famous person with your surname and claiming him as your ancestor whether you know he is or not.

Not every one with the same surname comes from the same root. There was a time when people did not have surnames. They were given or they took names based on their habitation, their lineage, their occupation. For instance Sam lived on a hill and became Sam Hill but other people not related to Sam lived on a hill also and took the name Hill. Sons of Jack became Jackson but there were more than one person named Jack that had sons. Some occupations were miller, fisher, baker, smith, Clark(clerk) etc.
Altman means old man in German but you can imagine there was more than one old man. The habitation could mean the town they lived in, the castle, lake they lived close to etc. Overton means over town but there no doubt were a lot of people living over a town.



Ancestry.Com says it is an Americanized version of the South German Tietz or Dietz.

Surnames are not always that easy to pen down. To really be sure, you need to trace your family.
I notice you show Pennsylvania Dutch. They are actually Germans from the Palatinate and Switzerland. In colonial America, Germans were called Dutch because that was what Deutsch sounded like to English speaking people.