Last Name Heritage was formed in 1995. I started with a sign shop in 1990 where I learned the skill of graphic design and white space balancing for sign design. I am an artist by nature as well. I was introduced to genealogy around 1992 and started  selling scrolls at malls and trade shows but I had no way to produce a customer’s coat of arms.

So I designed and created my own from scratch using my artistic background and sign skills. The first ones were hand painted before computer software programs were more available. In 1995, I sold my sign shop and set up my company Last Name Heritage.

It was important to me to produce a coat of arms that would look good framed on your wall, that meant only the best artwork would do. So I set out to build a heraldic art library by scouring secondhand bookstores and purchasing many out of print heraldry books. They were filled with beautifully detailed Victorian and Edwardian works of art that could not be found anywhere else.

I‘ve spent hundreds of hours rendering, modifying, color shading and drop shadowing my artwork to produce artistic detailed coat of arms. I set up this website for you to enjoy my work and search your own name as well. If you don’t appear on a search, please send me a request. Your name and coat of arms would then get produced and uploaded to the site within days for you to view and consider. We’ll send you an email when it’s uploaded.