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Originally Posted by Preston327
Ah well, my family's lineage has been traced (courtesy of some cousin of mine) back through the 1300s and its known that we had a fief in England at some point, so I imagine someone in my ancestry had arms and that's what we use today.
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Same with my family. And that is often what happened -- at some point in history on this side of the pond, the ancestor's arms became the "family" arms (since we don't have rules about it here).
Then, of course, there are the companies who have combed through
Burke's Peerage and now sell arms found there as "family" arms.
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