Is there a store in the GTA that sells framed family name origin histories?
There is no such thing as a family crest. A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. Actually, they don’t belong to families, except in Poland and maybe France. Frequently more than one man with the same surname, not all necessarily related, were each granted their own coat of arms, all different. No one of these peddlers who sell them on the internet, at shopping malls, in airports, in magazines will have all of them. They don’t need to in order to sell to the gullible. The only time they will have more than one coat of arms associated with any one surname is if more than one man with the same surname from different national origins were granted or assumed one. Then they will have one of each and there might have been others. Most men with that same surname were never granted or assumed a coat of arms and their descendants aren’t entitled to one at all. In the U.S. we have no laws regarding heraldry. A person is free to display any coat of arms they wi
