Dear Anonymous,<\/p>\n
Officially registering a name is super awesome, so first of all – rock on you for doing it.<\/p>\n
To register a name, you will go through your Kingdom\u2019s College of Heralds. You can usually find it on your kingdom\u2019s website, or by searching \u201c<kingdom name> heralds\u201d in Google. There is a form you fill out with basic information, the name you want, and your documentation.<\/p>\n
So yes. Yes you have to have documentation. Even if your name is John or Katherine.<\/p>\n
A lot of documentation for\u00a0\u201ccommon\u201d names can be found on the SCA College of Arms<\/a> website.<\/p>\n Heraldry\/name registration isn\u2019t really a magical, lost art form that requires animal sacrifice and perfectly drawn chalk diagrams. It\u2019s just rule-following, forms, and documentation.<\/p>\n Happy registering! <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Anonymous, Officially registering a name is super awesome, so first of all – rock on you for doing it. To register a name, you will go through your Kingdom\u2019s College of Heralds. You can usually find it on your kingdom\u2019s website, or by searching \u201c<kingdom name> heralds\u201d in Google. There is a form you … Continue reading “dear reference desk how does one go about officially registering their name with the sca? do you have to provide documentation no matter the name or only if it’s “uncommon”? how do you define an uncommon name?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,179,178,116,123,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-at","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}