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Question:Hi
Check out this heraldry web site to make you own coat of arms.
http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/symbol...
or this one
http://www.fleurdelis.com/coatofarms.htm

Cindy
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi
Check out this heraldry web site to make you own coat of arms.
http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/symbol...
or this one
http://www.fleurdelis.com/coatofarms.htm

Cindy
Reference Librarian

Draw a shield and divide it into quarters. Put in symbols for what your grandparents did for a living in each quarter; a hammer for a carpenter, airplane for a jet pilot, rifle for a soldier, etc. If your grandmothers never worked outside the home, put in gardening tools or cooking tools or something they did as a hobby.

You are WAY ahead of the innocents who write here looking for a "Family" coat of arms. There isn't any such thing.

The college of heralds did the same thing I advised you to do, back in 1403, more or less, except they worked with one person at a time (You are doing four), they had a whole "dictionary" of animals that meant different things, and most people's* occupations were "Knight", so they did character attributes and historical references instead of occupations.

*(Most people getting a C of A; most people in general were farmers.)

http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/
Some educational background and hows/whys.
I agree totally with Ted.. Far more legitimate to design your own, that misunderstanding the urban legend that coats of arms belong to "all" members of a surname/ family.