About The TOPETE surname website

Let me briefly introduce myself. My name is Pedro Pablo Topete and if you are like me, you have probably wanted to find out the quick and easy way where our unique surname, TOPETE, is from. I thought the "internet" would give me a fast answer but no luck. I have been searching Genealogy Forums, Boards, Websites that sell "Coat of Arms" since 1997 and never have gotten any clear and consise much less convincing information about our surname.

If you want things done right sometimes you have to do them yourself and this is the situation here. There are no sites out on the web that really have any solid information and there is nothing that is reliable much less scholarly as to the origins of our familia's surname, TOPETE.

This site is intended to be for the TOPETE's by TOPETE's and about TOPETE's worldwide. The focus of this site is to inform nuestra familia where we come from and explore our origins in a scholarly approach. The information on this site has been documented and I will furnish book titles, authors, publishing houses, publication locales, years of print. In short, anyone wishing to verify information on his own will be able to do so by taking down information.

No more hearsay, no more doubts, no more made up information about the TOPETE clan. I have come across websites that will gladly sell you Coat of Arms for TOPETE's claiming that the surname is "English", yeah right! they just want to make a dollar off of us.

This site will have maps of centuries past, contemporary times, geographical history as it pertains to the TOPETE's, an explanation of what Coat of Arms as well as Heraldry is. I will try to put into modern context, emigration, migration and immigration and how this has affected the TOPETE's. This site will also feature tips on how to effectively conduct research on our ancestors and principally, my aim is to link the TOPETE's up.