Are you disappointed with your family crest?

Question:Mine has three sheaves of wheat. Does anyone have a more boring one?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Mine has three sheaves of wheat. Does anyone have a more boring one?

Well?? dump it. Draw your own.
Per the College of Arms in the UK, families don't HAVE crests. Individuals and their immediate (male) (singular) heir are the only ones who have the right to coats of arms/ crests.
Sorry to disappoint you more. You really don't have to put up with something that has no validity to begin with.

I have one that has 3 roosters.. does that make you feel better.. It stood for the name Cobbs..

lol i don't even have one

Wendy is right. There is no such thing as a family crest. A crest is a small part of a coat of arms and some coats of arms do not have a crest.

Coats of arms DO NOT belong to surnames. They were and are granted to individuals and only the legitimate direct male line descendants of those individuals are entitled to them.

Actually for any one surname, there might have been, say 15, different men with the same surname each granted their own coat of arms. The peddlers that sell them won't have all of them. They don't need to in order to sell to gullible people.

There are no laws in the U.S. regarding heraldry and those merchants of deceit on the internet, at shopping malls, at airports, in magazines etc take advantage of Americans. In some countries a person would risk prosecution for displaying a coat of arms without documented proof that they are entitled to it.

Now, a person might have several in their family tree. That doesn't mean they are entitled to any one of them. It just means after doing research they find them and if the have a book printed or even published on their family history, it is quite legitimate for them to put pictures of their ancestors coats of arms in their book. However, it would not be legitimate for them to put in their book ones that just happened to have been granted to someone with the same surnames as their ancestors.

For Americans, if they have any English lines that goes back to early colonial days in the American South, they have a good chance of finding more than one in their family tree. Actually some in the South have the ones their ancestors brought over from England 300-400 years ago, and they aren't those dinky little walnut plaques that some silly people have on their den walls or over their fireplace. They can't buy groceries with them and Walmart won't even take them as a credit card.

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...

What? Well, no, because, like medals awarded to men and women in the military, whatever "family crest" was awarded to your ancestors does not (in all likelihood) apply to you.
Sorry about that!

You do not have a family crest because there is no such thing. It is a Coat of Arms, and the family crest is only a PART of it, not the whole thing.

Furthermore, Coat of Arms were not made up for surnames, they were designed and awarded to a specific individual. Each one ever awarded is different from all the others. The individual to whom it was awarded passes the rights and ownership of it down to HIS first born son. Then that son passes it down to his first born son, and so on. You, being a girl, do not have one. Even if you were a male, you would not have one if you do not fall in the line of first born sons from anyone who was awarded one.

Anyone who legitimately have a coat of arms already know about it. It would not be a long lost buried secret.