Find it on the web

• American College of Heraldry <users.aol.com/ballywoodn/acheraldry.html>

• British Heraldic Archive <www.kwtelecom.com/heraldry/>

• Canadian Heraldry/L’Heraldique <collections.ic.gc.ca/governor/heraldry/index. html>

• College of Arms <college-of-arms.gov.uk/>

• Genealogia e Heráldica Portuguesa (Portuguese Genealogy and Heraldry) <www.terravista.pt/Ancora/1057/>

• Heraldica y Genealogia (Heraldry for Surnames of Spanish Origin) <www.ctv.es/artes/>

• Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies — UK <www.ihgs.ac.uk/>

• Italian Heraldry, Nobility and Genealogy <www.italgen.com/heraldry.htm>

• Societas Heraldica Scandinavica (Scandinavian Heraldry Society) <www.heraldik.0rg/shshome2.html>

• The Art of Heraldry: Origins, Symbols, and Designs by Peter Gwynn-Jones (Barnes and Noble)

• “The Coats of Arms Craze” in Milton Rubincam’s Pitfalls in Genealogical Research (Ancestry)

• A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (Wordsworth Editions)

• Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry by Rosemary A. Chorzempra (Dover Publications)

• “Headstones, Hatchments, and Heraldry, 1650-1850” in Theodore Chase and Laurel K. Cabel’s Gravestone Chronicles II: More Eighteenth-Century New England Carvers and an Exploration of Gravestone Heraldica (New England Historic Genealogical Society)

• Heraldry: A Pictorial Archive for Artists and Designers edited by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (Dover Publications)

• The Oxford Guide to Heraldry by Thomas Woodcock and John Martin Robinson (Oxford University Press)

Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Including American Families with British Ancestry, 3 vols., by Sir John Bernard Burke (Burke’s Peerage). (Burke compiled numerous volumes of heraldic history besides these.)

Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657 by Meredith B. Colket, Jr. (General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America)

New England Historical and Genealogical Register. See volumes 82 (Apr. 1982); 86 (July 1932); 106 (July and October 1952); 107 (January, April, July and October 1953); 112 (July and October 1958); 122 (January, April and July 1968); 125 (July and October 1971); 133 (April 1979); 145 (October 1991); and 146 (July 1992).

From the August 2000 issue of Family Tree Magazine