I need help finding a family crest....?

Question

10 pts!!!

just send me a link to an image...not one that you have to pay for to get.

i want to use my grandmother's maiden name.

its:

romanoff

you can also try

romanov

or

romanova

its russian. thankyou soo much!!!

Answer 1

I googled Romanoff family crest, clicked on the first option and saw the crest.

Answer 2

What you are going to find on websites are companies that peddle them based solely on a surname.  Not every Romanov is entitled to a coat of arms and not every Romanov is part of the old Russian royal family.

The only thing you can do is to trace your grandmother's ancestry to find out if any male relative was ever granted a coat of arms.

Actually, there might have been many men with the same surname, not all necessarily related, that were each granted a coat of arms, all different. Then some with that surname never had a coat of arms.   No one peddler that sells them on the internet, at shopping malls, at airports, in magazines or solicit by mail will have all of them. They don't need to in order to sell to people. The only time they will have more than one is if more than one person with the same surname from more than one national origin were granted one.  Then they will have one of each when in fact there might have been several of each.

They don't belong to surnames and that is the problem with those companies. Frequently, they are valid coats of arms but not for everyone with the surname they show above or below the coat of arms.

Answer 3

In your case,just Google  "Czar" and "Coat of Arms", since it was theirs. It is on some bottles of vodka, too.

Here is my standard answer. You should know that a crest is the top part of a coat of arms.

houseofnames.com will show you a Coat of Arms that was (probably) once issued to someone with the same surname as yours, BUT:

Coats of arms were originally designed so knights could tell each other apart when they were buttoned up in their suits of armor. They were given to individuals, not families. If, for instance, every knight named "Smith" (Carpenter, Baker, Johnson . . .) used the same coat of arms, there would be a crowd of knights riding around with the same coat of arms painted on their shields. It would be as confusing as a football game where both sides wore blue uniforms and all the players were number 12.

They were not given to just anyone, either; you had to be rich and want to brag, or else be born to a noble family.

The eldest legitimate son inherits his father's Coats of Arms. He passes it on to his eldest legitimate son, and so on; that's where the myth of a "Family" Coat of arms comes from. Only one person can have a given coat of arms at one time.  

People who sell T-shirts and coffee mugs encourage the gullible to believe Coats of Arms are for a surname. Let us suppose Sir Peregrine Reginald Smith, born in 1412, had a wonderful Coat of Arms, a rampant dragon argent on a field azure.

Which would be easier - to sell that Coat of Arms on coffee mugs to everyone in the world named Smith, or to track down the eldest son of the eldest son of . . . Sir Peregrine, 14 generations later? That 14th great grandson might buy a coffee mug for everyone in his household, but that would only be four mugs.

If you could get 1% of the 3 million people in the USA named Smith to buy a mug, you'd be in retailer's heaven. Some of their ancestors might have been Schmidt in Germany or Smithowski in Poland, but who cares? 30,000 mugs at $11.95 each . . .