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Question:I want to find the real historical crest/coat of arms for my family.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I want to find the real historical crest/coat of arms for my family.

houseofnames.com will show you a Coat of Arms that was (probably) once issued to someone with the same surname as yours, BUT:

Coats of arms were given to individuals, not surnames or families. If, for instance, every knight named "Smith" used the same coat of arms, there would be a crowd of knights riding around with the same coat of arms painted on their shields. It would be as confusing as a football game where both sides wore blue uniforms and all the players were number 12.

The eldest legitimate son inherits his father's Coats of Arms. He passes it on to his eldest legitimate son, and so on; that's where the myth of a "Family" Coat of arms comes from. Only one person can have a given coat of arms at one time.

People who sell T-shirts and coffee mugs encourage the gullible to believe Coats of Arms are for a surname, since it is easier to sell coffee mugs to everyone in the world named Smith than to track down the eldest great great . . . grandson of Sir Peregrine Reginald Smith, the one whose Coat of Arms has a rampant dragon argent on a field azure. Sir P's 14th great grandson might buy a coffee mug for everyone in his household, but that would only be four mugs.

If you could get 1% of the 3 million people in the USA named Smith to buy a mug, you'd be in retailer's heaven. Some of their ancestors might have been Schmidt in Germany or Smithowski in Poland, but who cares? 300,000 mugs at $11.95 each . . .

Most famlies don't have one.

If you are entitled to one, you would probably already know, but for more details we would need to know what country your family came from.

You could try http://www.houseofnames.com/
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