all the web sights I'v check want you to pay for your family coat of arms and I'm doing this for a collage report any ideas would be of great value to me thank you.
2007-08-15 02:28:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerpsst.cfm
http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.htm
http://www.heraldry.ws/info/article10.html
If you are entitled to a coat of arms, the only way you can find that out is to trace your family, starting with your parents and working back.
Not everyone with the same surname comes from the same root. They are not necessarily related. The peddlers who sell coats of arms are merchants of deceit. If they use the United States mail to sell you their products, they risk being prosecuted for mail fraud.
Anytime you go into someone's home and see a coat of arms on their den wall, they are most likely not entitled to it. There are people in the American South that have the ones their ancestor brought over from England 300-400 years ago but they don't display them. They usually have them stuck away in a closet or up in the attic.
2007-08-15 07:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If there was such a thing as a Family Crest or Family Coat of Arms you would think that these would be freely available to everyone, Sadly this is not so. There are people out there making heaps of money out of the production of these so called family crests. My brother paid for such a crest in the UK, It would appear it's a fake also.
2016-05-18 03:10:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After reading up on the symbolism found in family crests, design your own and have a friend who is an art major draw it for you. That way, your crest will reflect your current interests as historic crests did for aristocratic families centuries ago. Colleges of Heraldry, incidentally, drew up crests for individuals rather than families anyway. John Shakespeare, the playwright's father, for example, applied for and obtained the right to display a Shakespeare coat of arms in 1596.
2007-08-15 08:21:27 · answer #3 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
www.houseofnames.com : after you find your family's name, it will show a picture of the family crest. Above the picture are a starfish (to add to your favorites), a printer (to print out the page--DUH), and an open envelope (to email the picture to a friend and/or yourself).
www.allfamilycrests.com : on the picture of your family crest, you can right click on the picture to save it, but it is a gif image (I don't know about your computer, but mine will not show a gif image for some reason. All I get is a blank square of something).
Then with either picture, you could enlarge it enough to do you some good for your college report.
2007-08-15 19:19:59 · answer #4 · answered by jan51601 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your family would have to have been granted a coat of arms. Not all family names have coat of arms
2007-08-15 07:39:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is your family's crest, it would not be on the internet, unless you or someone in your family put it here.
2007-08-15 09:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A lot of that stuff they have on the net is a joke,do some research and find your own,if you can't make your own,I think you can even have it registered.
2007-08-17 03:56:48 · answer #7 · answered by margaret moon 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Put the family name in the seach engine...you'll find it!
2007-08-15 04:41:07 · answer #8 · answered by red 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I used this site and it worked ok for me.
2007-08-15 06:35:11 · answer #9 · answered by P.A.M. 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋