Design Your Own Coat of Arms

Design Your Own Personal Coat of Arms

Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits, and accomplishments. Hundreds of years ago, warriors identified themselves in battle by using certain colours and symbols on their shields. Later, these distinguishing marks also appeared on surcoats worn over armor. Thus, the term “coat of arms” was born.

Now, with genealogist Rosemary Chorzempa’s fascinating new…