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Position:Home>Genealogy> Does anyone know or have seen the Garman coat of arms?Question: Does anyone know or have seen the Garman coat of arms!? Does anyone know or have seen the Garman coat of arms!? Is anyone here related to a Garman or something!? or does anyone know where I can find out!. Lots of people think its either: English, Irish or which came from Saint Germain in the Norman conquests!.
Thumbs up for every answerWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: http://wc!.rootsweb!.ancestry!.com/cgi-bin/!.!.!. has 18,697 entries for the surname Garman!. So, someone is related to them!. Here's my standard answer for Coats of Arms!. House of names - http://www!.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 designed so knights could tell each other apart when they were buttoned up in their suits of armor!. They were given to individuals, not 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 basketball 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 PROPERLY (See below) have a given coat of arms at one time!. People who sell T-shirts and coffee mugs, however encourage the gullible to believe Coats of Arms are for a surname!. If your surname is Smith and you come from Shropshire, you may find that Sir Albert Smith, Sir Bruce Smith and Sir Charles Smith, all from Shropshire, all had C of A!. If you do your research, you may find you descend from Sir Charles, but you are nowhere close to being the eldest son of the eldest son of the !. !. !.!. Now comes the question - Is using his coat of arms proper!? Opinions differ!. Some say it is like demanding room and board in the ancestral Smith estate in Shropshire, from the current owners - extremely rude, if not illegal!. Some say it is like wearing a "Regimental" tie if you didn't serve in that regiment!. (Land's End sells those by the thousands to Americans!. I would never buy one!.) Some say it is like wearing a "Scotch Plaid" shirt when you don't belong to that clan!. (LL Bean sells tens of thousands of those; I have "Lindsay" and "Black Watch" myself, although "Black Watch" is a regiment, not a clan!.) Some say it is as harmless as wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap when you didn't play for the team, or a UC Berkeley T-shrt when you didn't attend the University!. (Or an Ohio State one, but as long as you're going to wear a University T-shirt, why not the finest!?) So, there's the facts and three opinions about using a "Family" coat of arms!. You can make up your own mind, after you do your research!.Www@QuestionHome@Com well, I ave a friend with the last name garman, but I am not sure what her origin is!.!.!. here are some links that may help though!.!.!. http://www!.houseofnames!.com/xq/asp!.fc/qx!.!.!. from doing a little digging, I have a hunch that you may have german in you from the Garmans!. Many settled in middle Pennsylvania when they emigrated and most of these were of German background!.!.!.farmers, etc!.!.!. good luck! =)Www@QuestionHome@Com |