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Question:I still dont really know what it actually is but my aunt said she done one when she was 15, Her maiden name was moore.

I typed up moore coat of arms and I found one but are there loads of moore coat of arms and I have to find the right one or is there only one coat of arms per name?? I dont get it


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I still dont really know what it actually is but my aunt said she done one when she was 15, Her maiden name was moore.

I typed up moore coat of arms and I found one but are there loads of moore coat of arms and I have to find the right one or is there only one coat of arms per name?? I dont get it

Go to Coat of arms . com,,,,should explain things for you,,,,

You've opened up a real can of worms with this question. A lot of people on this board get irritated by the number of companies out there on the internet who will sell you something purporting to be your family crest that you can frame and stick on your wall. It's a bit like buying one of those phoney degrees from the 'University of Balamory' - it's a great conversation piece to have on your wall, but doesn't have any basis in reality. Neither do all these "family crests" that you will come across on the internet.

Sure, you can google "Moore coat of arms" or "Moore surname" and buy any number of keyrings, fridge magnets, pens or certificates or surname history charts, but it is what it is. A bit of fun. As many other answerers will take great delight in telling you, coats of arms belong to an individual and not a surname. If you want your own coat of arms then you draw a shield put a couple of unicorns or lions in it and pay a huge amount of cash to the Royal college of Arms. Only the seriously rich bother. Everyone else buys a generic fake and hopes no-one will notice. Most people won't, and even a proper genealogist wouldn't be so unkind as to laugh at you directly, but they'd certainly have a good old chuckle afterwards. If you want something to stick on your wall then go for it. Just try not to boast too much, especially to those who know the subject!

Yes there are usually more than one 'coat of arms; for any name.
They are heraldic devices identifying families and quite often they split and show other families joining then.in marriage etc.
It is thought they were devise to allow men encased in armour to be identified in battle.
Later institutions, universities, cities also had arms made.

Look at you family tree and where your family was based.
Then look for your names in that area, you should find something.
You then will have to find out if you can definitely use it

Okay, what you pull up are surname product peddlers. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. There might be, for instance, 30 different individuals named Moore, not all necessarily related, that were each granted their own coat of arms, all different. The merchants of deceit that sell them won't have all 30. They don't need to in order to sell to gullible people.

They were and are granted to individual men and are passed down through the direct male line of descent.

See the link below, one from the British College of Arms (they issue coat of arms), one from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society and one regarding Irish coats of arms.

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

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

http://www.heraldry.ws/info/article10.ht...

If this is a school assignment, go ahead and print off any that you see that were granted to someone named Moore, but at the same time print off the links I am furnishing you and give them to her.

Unfortunately, a lot of teachers who apparently know absolute nothing about genealogy or heraldry assign a task like this for their students.

There are some persons who resent those on this board who warn about the chicanery in the surname product business, like coats of arms. I don't know if they are in the pockets of those merchants or if they have one of those dinky little walnut plaques on their wall and don't won't it known that what they have is just a coat of arms granted to someone with the same surname and might not even be related.

Usually they are valid coats of arms that were granted to someone with a particular surname and the family history that comes with them is valid but not necessarily the same family history of everyone with that surname.

NO

A right to arms can only be established by the registration in the official records of the College of Arms of a pedigree showing direct male line descent from an ancestor already appearing as entitled to arms, or by making application through the College of Arms for a grant of arms.

People usually know it their family is entitled to a coat of arms, if you're not certain you can check with the College of Arms, in England.

Coat of Arms were granted to INDIVIDUALS, not assigned to surnames. Just because someone of your last name MAY have been granted one at some point does not make it yours. Also, it may be that several men of the same surname were granted a coat of arms....each one different.....and maybe none of the men were related to each other. Likewise, it may be that NO ONE of your surname was ever granted one. In order for you to be able to claim any Coat of Arms you must be able to do the following:

1. research your family tree to see if you have any ancestors that were granted a Coat of Arms.

2. If you do have an ancestor who was granted one, then you can only claim it IF the following is true: The person who rightfully can claim a Coat of Arms that was granted to their ancestor is a male descendant who is the first born son, of the first born son, of the first born son, of the first born son, etc., all the way back to the person who was originally granted the Coat of Arms. If you do not fall in that line, then you cannot claim it. If you do fall in that line, then chances are you are already aware you have one.

To use a Coat of Arms based on your last name is meaningless. It is about as accurate as buying a picture frame at the store that has a piece of paper in it showing an image of a child holding a flower and claiming that is actually a picture of your child.