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By checking out this page of the Herald's website, you are on your way ...
The best way to help out is to start showing up at meetings (which are mostly online), and volunteering. There is no requirement that a person who works with the heralds be a "Rostered Herald".
Here are ways you can start:
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At the next Kingdom, Principality, or local event, find out if there's a herald's meeting
at the event. If there is, show up. At Kingdom and Principality events the meeting is
usually held on Saturday morning, and sometimes again on Sunday morning, to help
plan activities for the day, and to sign up the people who want to help.
The "Signup Sheet" usually has a place where you can note that you wish to be trained.
The usual jobs the heralds need people the most for are:
- Voice: Duty Shouts (going around the site and making announcements at scheduled intervals)
- Voice: Field Heralds (announcing fights on the field)
- Consultation Table (working with people who want to register name/arms and want to have some help ...)
Sometimes it is possible to sign up to help with Court, but normally the people tapped to to court are done "off-line" as it were. If you are interested in helping with court, talk to the Green Banner Herald, or the herald-in-charge at the event.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You do not have to become an expert in all of the areas above. Find the area(s) that interest you, and try working with the heralds in that area. Not all heralds are experts in all parts of what the College does, don't let us overwhelm you!
- At your local group meeting (if you attend these), find out who the herald is, and ask if they can help train you.
- If you live in or near the central Bay Area in California, the monthly herald's meetings are currently there, and you can attend those -- these meetings concentrate on peoples name and armory registrations, and this is a great way to learn how to do heraldic "research" (or what is sometimes called "Book Heraldry"). To find out when/where these meetings are, if you have The Page or access to one, the information is there, you can visit the Meetings page of this website, or you can go to the Contact page of this website, and ask Vesper or Matins.
- You might want to ask about the weekly Brachet herald meetings -- these get into heraldic research as well as the monthly College meetings, checking out armory registrations from other Kingdoms.
- If you decide you want to put more effort into being a herald, you should check out the West Kingdom Herald's Handbook which is available from this website at: Herald's Handbook.
- If you are serious about joining the heralds, you can ask to be placed on the roster. If you are the herald herald for a local branch, you should be on the roster. To check, you can visit this page: Find a Herald -- this includes a link to a roster update form that you can sign up to be a herald if you're not already on the roster.
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