Are family Coat of Arms offical, or are they made up?
Tell your friend that if he/she has bought one of those little walnut plaques that those websites are selling and displaying it like it belongs to him/her, he/she is guilty of usurping another person’s identity. If you have pride in yourself and your family, you certainly don’t want to take another’s identity. It is serious enough in some countries that a person can prosecute him/her for theft. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. In England, Scotland, Wales, they don’t belong to families. They were and are granted to an individual man. When a man is granted one all of his sons are entitled to have one granted to them with some differences. Only the oldest son inherits his father’s upon his father’s death. There are various websites, merchants in airports and shopping malls selling them like they belong to everyone with the same surname and they absolutely do not. The 2 websites you have given are nothing but scams. Also in many cases more than one man with the same surname, not al
