Coat Of Arms

One thing that I think everyone should know is there family history. Everyone should at least know where there ancestors came from, and know what there coat of arms looks like.

A coat of arms is an arrangement of bearings, or symbols, usually depicted on and around a shield, which indicates ancestry and distinctions (That is an official deffinition). Each symbol has a different meaning and everones coat of arms is different. They can help you learn a little bit about your family history, and alot of them are really cool!

Here is my coat of arms that I found on this really cool website that has alot of Irish coat of arms. I was able to find out what my friends coat of arms looked like and found out a little bit about there history as well! My father has a copy of our coat of arms hanging in our family room. Anyway I have always thought that the coat of arms is really cool, and wanted to show you! If you live in the United States you could look up coat of arms and find out your family history.

Fact Of The Day: In 1998, Parks Canada unveiled a monument to Irish immigrants on Grosse Ile in the St. Lawrence River. Irish immigrants were quarantined on the island before they entered Canada. In the 1830s, thousands of Irish people died of cholera there and in the 1840s, thousands more died of typhus and were buried on the island.