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Practising and Applying the Standards 4 7
While a large part of Canadian heraldry is occupied with
institutional and corporate arms, many indviduals have also
had personal arms designed and granted. The Authority
maintains the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of
Canada as a record of the regstrations and grants they have
sanctioned. A personal grant of arms is unique to one
recipient, and cannot lawfully be assumed by anyone else.
In addition, the CHA keeps separate genealogical files
for claims "to bear arms by lawful descent from an original
recipient."' This means that their files may contain
information on the receipt of arms from another recognized
Authority. For example, a grant or inheritance from Britain
or Europe may be registered with the CHA. A Canadian
claimant must submit evidence of relationship and heredity
to that recipient; proper procedure requires that additional
grants within a family or through succeeding generations
must each have a distinct variation from the original. Further
information can be obtained from the Authority or the
Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (www.hsc.ca/).

Writing and Publishing
Preparing an article about some of your family research is
an excellent experience in composing your thoughts on a
problem you solved, or a challenge you overcame. Even
writing a paragraph or two is a good start. It erases some of
the trepidation about the larger-scale writing and publishing
of a family history. Editors of the newsletters or regular
journals of a genealogical society are always looking for
new material, and this is an obvious place to begin. Societies
with large memberships often hare two levels of publication
- newsletter with society business and the latest news
a
gleaned from far and wide, and a larger magazine-type
Tbt Cattadian Heraldic Atitbody, p 16, published at kdeau Hall, Ottawa,
1990.