How to find my family coat of arms picture???

Question

This is for my girlfriend, she has to find this, she doesnt have the internet and if she doesnt have it soon she'll fail the class she's taking. So please help me out... her last name is Starnes, first name Katelynn.

Thank you

Answer 1

Starnes

Origin: English

Coat of Arms: Silver with a chevron between three black crosses.

Crest: A c*o*c*k starling. (Yahoo blocks this word without the stars !)

Spelling variations of this family name include: Sterne, Stern, Stearn, Stearns and others.

First found in Buckinghamshire where they were seated as Lords of the manor of Grendon from early times.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Abigail and Mary Stearns settled in Salem, Mass. in 1630; Isaac Stearns, his wife Mary, his son and four daughters settled in Massachusetts in 1630; Charles Stearns settled in New England in 1640.

PS - In case you don't know - a chevron is like an inverted "V"

Answer 2

That's a dumb assignment. Most people are not entitled to a coat of arms. If they were they would know it since it was something passed from generation to generation from father to oldest son usually. It's not as if every family had a coat of arms. It was an honor bestowed upon a person by a King for service to the crown.

Answer 3

Go to the site below. this is a coat of arms for A family called starnes, she may not be entitled to use it

Answer 4

Use the links the good people already gave you and lie. AFTER the school year, tell the teacher she/he is woefully ignorant. Read the article in Wikipedia below, print it out, send it to the teacher.

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This is a text file I copy because I'm a slow typist. If you asked about a family crest instead of a family coat of arms, you should know that a crest is just the top part of a coat of arms.

With a couple of rare exceptions from Eastern Europe, coats of arms were given to specific indivuals, not families. The oldest legitimate son inherits it.

Supose Sir Thomas Smith, Sir Richard Smith and Sir Harold Smith all get Coats of Arms in 1512. By 2006 there is one legitimate eldest son of eldest son of eldest son . . . each, for a total of three men. (Unless someone died before they had a son.)

BUT - there are four million Smiths in the US, England, Canada, Australia, plus the branch of the family in Argentina started in 1912, after the trouble with the bank auditors in Philadelphia.

You are a merchant, selling plaques, coffee mugs, T-shirts and parchment-colored paper scrolls with coats of arms on them. (Everything is highest quality at lowest cost, of course.) Hmmmm. Which would get you more sales - to sell them to those three eldest sons, or to the four MILLION people with surname Smith, including some who were "Schmidt" or "Smithkowski" or "Wjoschmitz" before they came through Ellis Island?

You can see why some people would want to advertise "Family" Coats of Arms. They can sell them to every Tom, Dick and Harry. To be fair to them, they are meeting a need. People want to think of their ancestors as riding down the lane in a shining coat of armor, not mucking out the kinghtly stable. If there wasn't a huge demand for "Family" coats of arms, there wouldn't be merchants vending same.

What you get with a "Family" coat of arms is a C of A that was once awarded to someone with that surname, usually. If they get an order for 50 T-shirts for a reunion and can't find a C of A that had ever been awarded to someone of that surname, you get the best guess of the guy in the graphics department, who uses a lot of lions rampant on a crimson field with verdant argules.

Wikipedia has articles on Coats of Arms and heraldry, if you are interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry