Some of the terms that you will come across in your genealogy research, as it pertains to and touches on heraldry will be: Marshalling: Which was the term used when a marriage took place. It was the practice of the day to combine the coats of arms of the two families who had intermarried. Technically marshalling is arranging two more more coats of...

Does your family have a coat of arms? If it does, you may be surprised to find that its not the one that you think it might be. Down through history there have been coats of arms that were used as ornamentation,and the simple fact is that today not many of us are really aware of what they mean, whether the design we are seeing is an accurate rendit...