Need to find family coat of arms?

Question:I'm looking for the Halas family coat of arms. Can anyone help me find it?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm looking for the Halas family coat of arms. Can anyone help me find it?

In this particular case, coat-of-arms is a misnomer. It is actually a family crest!

The Halas crest was granted to a Mr. George Halas about 1921 by the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office.

It is one of the few coat-of-arms/crests that have changed over time. In it's original form, it was fairly nondescript. Pretty much just a leather head covering. But over time it evolved and today it is a warrior's helmet made of high impact plastic with a unique "C" on both sides. It also comes with bars across the front to protect the warrior's face.

The knights of the Halas family never used shields, thus this is not part of the coat of arms. While there was other armament used, most notably breast-plates, shoulder plates. Some warriors also had gorgets or neck guards. Additional armour is traditionally worn on the thighs, knees, buttbone and most warriors prefer to protect their "private parts" with specialized armour. But as there have been no historical consistency or standards to these components, they are not part of the coat-of-arms. Only the crest in this particular family is used.

The link provided in sources will take you to a place where you can see the family crest with it's distinctive shape and quite stylish "C" which differentiates this family's warriors from the warriors of other clans in their confederation. Thus, like all coats-of-arms, it allows the combatants to differentiate their allies from their foes on the field of battle.

I hope Ted Pack is around. He'll no doubt have good ideas for you to make a Halas coat of arms.

As a top contributor to Genealogy, I thought you would have understood that there is no "family" coat of arms; that they were granted to individuals, not to surnames, etc., etc. Shirley has a whole spiel about it that she posts about it, but did not do so this time.

Either that, or you really do know this but for some reason are asking the question incorrectly.

EDIT: I didn't say anything wrong or insulting. I just thought you knew about this, and found it curious that you would ask this. So, then I thought surely you know this, so maybe you just worded your question wrong, and did not say exactly what you meant to say. You did not need to be so judgmental and single me out on a public forum. Shame on you. Not a very good Christian, are you. Shirley was kind enough to email me privately and inform me that you were only playing around, which I did not realize is what you were doing.

There actually isn't a coat of arms for the Halas family --coats of arms were granted to individuals.

It is a field verdant with bars argent. There is a rampant bear upon it, running for yards, carrying an oviod made of hogskin . . .

Out of curiousity, I checked one of the "leading" sources for coats of arms... who (with their extensive research) explains that the ancient Halas family was seated from ancient times at Buckinghamshire.. and wow.. goes on to claim that HILLHOUSE is a variation of this name. You know.. just one of those spelling variations.
I also located a possible source for the Greek comment, but since it involves a fantasy game and events in the year 3025, I was at a loss for that. It does clearly state "the Greek Halas family".
Maybe the info from George Halas' own parents in the census was a mistake?? Or they just said Buckinghamshire, and the census taker mispelled it to Bohemia.
If we can deal with a dozen "I'm bored, guess my nationality from this pic", this shouldn't be an issue. "Find the holes in this" at least offers something to learn and use.