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I know heydrich was part of the Nazi Reich and it seems thats all i can find on the info i am looking for some sort of family crest coat of arms for that family name.

2007-01-11 15:18:09 · 3 answers · asked by melissa b 1 in Arts & Humanities Genealogy

I am looking for the family crest/coat of arms for the family line of Renhardt Tristan Heydrich the only info i can find invlves him in the Nazi movement very little on his family

2007-01-11 15:20:29 · update #1

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go to fleurdelis.com

2007-01-11 15:20:58 · answer #1 · answered by Isabela 5 · 0 0

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 individuals, not families. The oldest legitimate son inherits it.

Suppose 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 he 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 high quality, low 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

2007-01-12 12:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Ted Pack is correct, there is NO SUCH THING as a FAMILY coat of arms. They were issued to one person and possibly (not always) handed down to the oldest son upon that person's death. The rumour that a "Family coat-of-Arms" exists is an invention of US businesses dealing in "souvenirs" and wanting to sell large quantities.

2007-01-15 11:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by bevl78 4 · 0 0

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