That looks like wool. Sheep are a big deal there and in Europe. They mow lawns while growing fur. When it's hot, they walk around nude.
My grandparents came from Europe. I have a retired uncle that is having fun tracking down our ancestors. He is into 300 years ago now. The Catholic and Orthodox churches have records of birth. They were respected by armies then. The men before me were involved in all the wars that happened in France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, Italy etc. What a bunch. I did my own warrior duty as 6 yrs AF AD. I think my uncle will write a book. After his wife died (my aunt) he decided to challenge himself because he can. I am related to some interesting characters.
Probably shouldn't get me started on genealogy. I've got two reliable links that if you can trace your colonial (including southern) ancestry back far enough to find one or more of many so-called gateway ancestors to professionally proven royal lines, it gets very interesting. My daughter was asking me, so I poked around some more and found another one going back to Wm Conqueror, etc., and summarized it for her.
It's very easy to make contacts and trade info on the internet. I've met third cousins, etc., and more distant relatives going further back, and I've done what my mother only dreamed of, put so much of our family lines together, my main goal is to get back as far as the first one to America. Several I'm stuck on.
You talked about Europe. My ex's ancestor was a draft dodger from Alsace, very sad story actually. You have to know how those poor people were treated to understand it. It was always being fought over between France and Germany, the Prussians I think. Another German line of mine (I have two German ones, the rest mainly British Isles, came from the Black Forest, I didn't trace it, another dedicated 3rd cousin did, went there and found the Catholic records whereof you speak. Most of them still exist if you can read them. SLC has lots of them, too. There were twins they somehow persuaded a priest to baptize after they died at birth, the poor mother died at sea coming here, until you get way way back when they were all Catholic, that's the only Catholic ancestry I've found for many, many generations.
Better stop there, but if you want my links to those websites, just holler. There are some good lists, too, at rootsweb. I work too hard on it sometimes (have to find the least among us too and account for as many as I can) ancestry.com is a good resource but you have to plow through so much to find anything and watch for accuracy of contributed information.
Just for the fun of it, you ought to go to the library and see if they have ancestry.com and the other one, can't think of it now. I can get into it from home now. Maybe you've already done that.