Dear WRG and Russell, At 05:53 PM 8/22/00 -0500, Russell C Sage wrote: >It is also my understanding that an individual's coat of arms is a merger of >his mother's and his father's coats of arms. This is only in the case that the mother is an heiress, that is, has no brothers to inherit the coat-of-arms. Regards, Robert Robert L. Ward WHITNEY Research Group <http://www.whitneygen.org/>