Family help?

Question

i want to view my family crest but not have to but it do you know a sight where i could do this

my name is killian(the german one not irish)

Answer 1

www.ancestory.com , they might have it

Answer 2

A crest is part of a coat of arms.

Coats of arms do not belong to surnames.

They were and are granted to individuals and are passed down through the direct legitimate male line of descent.

If this is a school project, please print off the 3 links below and give them to your teacher.  One is from the British College of Arms(they grant coats of arms)one from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U. S., The Naitonal Genealogical Society and one regarding Irish heraldry

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

http://www.heraldry.ws/info/article10.ht...

There are lots of peddlers selling them on the internet (like HOuse of Names), at airports, at shopping malls, in magazines or solicit by mail.  What they are selling are quite frequently valid coats of arms, but they don't belong to everyone with the surname that they have on or above the coat of arms.

Actually, there might have been, for instance, 15 different men with the same surname, not all necessarily related, each granted their own coat of arms, all different.

Some men with that surname were never granted one.  No one peddler that sells them will have all 15, no way. They don't need to in order to sell to gullible people.

The only time they will have more than one is if more than one person with the same surname from different national origins were granted one. Then they will have one of each and there might have been several of each.

Answer 3

Royal college of heraldry........london.....

Answer 4

tht sounds cool! sry i hav no idea! good luck wit ur question!

Answer 5

It is SITE, not SIGHT.

A crest is the top part of a coat of arms. I paste this 3 - 7 times a week:

houseofnames.com will show you a Coat of Arms that was (probably) once issued to someone with the same surname as yours, BUT:

Coats of arms were designed so knights could tell each other apart when they were buttoned up in their suits of armor. They were given to individuals, not families. If, for instance, every knight named "Smith" (Carpenter, Baker, Johnson . . .) used the same coat of arms, there would be a crowd of knights riding around with the same coat of arms painted on their shields. It would be as confusing as a football game where both sides wore blue uniforms and all the players were number 12.

They were not given to just anyone, either; you had to be rich and want to brag, or else be born to a noble family.

The eldest legitimate son inherits his father's Coats of Arms. He passes it on to his eldest legitimate son, and so on; that's where the myth of a "Family" Coat of arms comes from. Only one person can have a given coat of arms at one time.  

People who sell T-shirts and coffee mugs encourage the gullible to believe Coats of Arms are for a surname. Let us suppose Sir Peregrine Reginald Smith, born in 1412, had a wonderful Coat of Arms, a rampant dragon argent on a field azure.

Which would be easier - to sell that Coat of Arms on coffee mugs to everyone in the world named Smith, or to track down the eldest son of the eldest son of . . . Sir Peregrine, 14 generations later? That 14th great grandson might buy a coffee mug for everyone in his household, but that would only be four mugs.

If you could get 1% of the 3 million people in the USA named Smith to buy a mug, you'd be in retailer's heaven. Some of their ancestors might have been Schmidt in Germany or Smithowski in Poland, but who cares? 30,000 mugs at $11.95 each . . .

Answer 6

Ditto what Ted says.  Also, remember that the "family crest" was awarded to someone for services rendered, much the same that the Military folks get medals nowadays.  In other words, it doesn't belong to YOU personally.  Of course, it is still nice to put in your family tree file; I have quite a few.