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Question:I have to do a scrapbook and i need a coat of arms but i can't find a printable one. Please help! thanks. :]]


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have to do a scrapbook and i need a coat of arms but i can't find a printable one. Please help! thanks. :]]

What Shirley said is 100% correct. Coat of Arms were granted to an individual, not assigned to a last name and cannot be claimed by everyone with that last name. The ONLY way you can TRUTHFULLY claim a Coat of Arms is IF you can prove you have an ancestor that was granted one, AND IF you can prove that you fall in the line of first born's from that person to you -- meaning that the rightful owner of the coat of arms is the first born of the person who was awarded it, and then it is passed down to that person's first born, and then that person's first born, and so on. Even if you can prove that an ancestor of yours was granted a Coat of Arms, YOU cannot claim it if you do not fall in the lineage of first borns from that person all the way down to you.

I wish people would STOP promoting the website www.houseofnames.com. That is misguiding people to believe the information there is truthful and accurate when in fact it is not; and totally disregards the facts about Coat of Arms and how one gets one.

Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. Please see the links below,one from the British College of Arms and the other from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

There are lots of teachers who apparently know next to nothing about genealogy or heraldy who ask their students to find their family coat of arms. If this is your case, please print off the 2 links I have given you and give them to your teacher. She would have to be impressed with your research.

In the U. S., there are no laws regarding heraldry and there are descendants of snake oil salesmen who sell coats of arms to people like they belong to them because they have a certain surname. Anytime you go into someone's home and see one of those dinky little walnut plaques on their den wall or over their fireplace, they are just displaying one that was granted to an individual with their surname and probably isn't even related.

In some countries, a person would risk prosecution for displaying a coat of arms without documented proof that they are entitled to it.

Try the following website:

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/...