If one wishes to learn more about Coat of Arms, you may wish to check this webpage: http://www.doucetfamily.org/interest/Coat.htm says, "However, you now know that any site that purports to sell "your family coat of arms" is a rip-off." For the rest of the story, go to the website. http://www.oregonvos.net/~clenzen/heraldry.html I posted this the other day: http://www.houseofnames.com/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=Chaudoin It gives these as variant surnames: Chaudenay, Chaudenet, Chaudenez, Chaudenait, Chaudenais, Chaudenays, Chaudenaits, Chaudenets, Chaudnay, Chaudnet, Chaudnez, Chaudnait, Chaudnais, Chaudnays, Chaudnaits, Chaudnets, de Chaudenay and many more. However, there is no proof that these are French variants for Chaudoin. Like in the U.S.A. there are many variants, so perhaps this is true elsewhere. I have added these surnames to our listing for the CHAUDOIN, etc. Y-DNA Project. If the name exists perhaps in time we may have a participant. If the Y-DNA matches that of the CHAUDOIN & variants surnames of the U.S.A. then we would know that a relationship exists. However, we have yet to even get our first participant from a U.S.A. CHAUDOIN or variant. I even added the surname of CHAUDRON to our DNA site, since so many give that surname as our French ancestor without proof. Only DNA will prove relationships, since the male Y gene is passed down through the generations from father to son(s). Male descendants of Francois Chaudoin (no matter the spelling) will inherit their ancestor's Y-DNA, which of course, could be the same DNA passed on by any of his male siblings, and male cousins, etc. inherited from his/their common ancestor. Audrey