Ignatiuk Family Coat of Arms?

Question

Need help finding the Ignatiuk Family Coat of Arms. My dad is orginally from Poland and when I was young did tell me of our families coat of arms. Could anyone please help me, ive searched high and low. He is originally from Sceczin

Answer 1

Coats of arms do not belong to surnames.  

They were and are granted to individuals and only the direct male line descendants are entitled to them.  Now, I have seen someone put on this board that in Poland all members of a dynastic house are entitled to a coat of arms.

Actually there might have been, for instance, 15 different men with the same surname, not necessarily related,  that were each granted their own coat of arms, all different.  The peddlers like House of Names that sell them won't have all 15. They don't need to in order to sell to gullible people.  Now if persons from more than one nationality with the same surname were granted coats of arms, they will have one from each nationality, but there might have been 5 from each nationality.  

There are no laws in the U. S. regarding heraldry and people who sell them on the internet, at airports, in shopping mall, in magazines and solicit by direct mail just take advantage of Americans.  In some countries a person would risk prosecution for displaying a coat of arms without documented proof that they are entitled to it.

See the links below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hera...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arm...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coats_...

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

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

Answer 2

Start at houseofnames.com