This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jI2.2ACIB/200.2.1 Message Board Post: Wait a minute... I have never heard that you can make your own Coat of Arms. I was under the assumption that it was a European thing that was awarded to a particular family for some act of bravery or something like that. And by European, I mean England, Spain, France, and other countries that awarded families these type of things. Us Americans are pretty ignorant when it comes to heraldry and coat of arms, for the most part, and so I did a little bit of reading up on them. Anyways, if I am totally wrong, then please school me (and those who subscribe to Morales-L@Rootsweb.com) in the ways of Coat of Arms designing. : ) Thanks! Dani