What site can i go on to view my family code of arms. for free?

Question

the last name is ahlborn

Answer 1

I am sure someone else will elaborate but just because there is one for your last name does not mean it is your families.

Answer 2

What you are asking about is a coat of arms.

Coats of arms were and are granted to individual men and are inherited by the legitimate direct male line descendants.  Sometimes a woman might inherit one if there is no male heir.   However, most people are not entitled to one at all.  

Actually, there might have been more than one person with the same surname that wre each granted their own coat of arms, all different.  No one peddler who sells them on the internet, at shopping malls, in airports, in magazines etc will have all of them.  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.

Under sources, I have given you 2 links, one from the British College of Arms(they grant coats of arms) and the other from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.

Now it wouldn't be impossible for you to have more than one in your family tree. That doesn't mean you are entitled to any one of them.  What it means if after researching your family tree you find more than one ancestor that were granted coats of arms and if you have a book printed or even published on your family history, it would be legitimate for you to put picutres of your ancestors' coats of arms in your book.  It would not be legitimate, however, for you to put in your book pictures of those that just happened to be granted to persons with the same surname as your ancestors.

If you have any English lines that goes back to early colonial days in the American South, you have a good chance of finding several in your family tree.  Actually, some in the South have the one their ancestor   brought over from England 300-400 years ago and they aren't those dinky little walnut plaques either.  As a rule they don't display them. They aren't any good for buying groceries or even GASOLINE.  

Anytime you see one of those walnut plaques with a coat of arms mounted on it and often times a family history on someone's den wall, what you are looking at is one that just happened to have been granted to someone with their surname and possibly isn't even related.  Now if you are a student, I will tell you what your parents will tell you.  You don't laugh or make some deprecating remark.  We don't laugh at people in their own homes about something like that. That also goes for people with T-Shirt, coffee mugs, keychains etc with a coat of arms on it.

If this is a school project, please print off the 2 links, I am furnishing you and give them to your teacher.