Blazonry

Say the arms. The page runs them.

Your Six Arms

Type what you know and watch them redraw

Six arms for a sample family: Lyon and Bowes, from Scotland and England, living in Texas. Type your own and all six redraw.

The Family

The Name

Heralds punned on names for 800 years. So does this page, and it says so under the tile.

The Nations

Where the four grandparents' people were from, in any order. One is enough; two quarter the shield.

Home Now

Arms moved with people. The right half of one shield is where you live.

What the Family Does

A garb is a wheatsheaf. Farmers bore it because they grew wheat, not because it meant plenty.

What the Family Holds To

Only the meanings a herald's book actually printed. The source is under the tile.

The Children

One design, differenced for each child, the way arms have always passed down.

Marks of difference
Also

The link holds what you typed and nothing else. Nothing is stored anywhere: not on this device, not on a server.

Six Arms

      No surname owns a coat of arms. These six are built from what you told us, and every line under each one says where it came from: a national arms, a state statute, a herald's book with its page. One becomes yours by choosing it and using it, which is how most arms in history began.

      The puns on names are the oldest device in heraldry and the least solemn. Where a name gives none, the tile says so instead of inventing one.