What if you document your genealogy to 19th century nobles who had titles? This is realizable. Are the family crests and mottos yours to use? Is it even possible that you could have grown into adulthood having never heard of these ancestors and perhaps their illustrious deeds?
Yes, it is possible. There are descendants of noble houses alive all over the world including America, many living ordinary lives. (I recently read about a Habsburg descendent who went to a Texas museum opening of a show that contained the possessions of her family.)
Your Great Great Grandma might have gone to her wedding in a carriage right out of a Cinderella story book even though you can barely make the rent on a one bedroom apartment.
It's not for nothing that the dramatic fictive series called The Romanoffs, about modern people who feel they have connections to that Royal family, was so successful.
No, you can't use one or more Crests of families you connect to, not as an American, though you can put copies in a personal genealogy for distribution within your family which is for educational purposes.
However, these days when a commoner such as American Meghan Markle marries into a Royal Family, as she did when she married Prince Harry, a new Coat of Arms is designed for her.
There's nothing stopping you from designing your own logo or brand.
Consider looking in books that include Heraldry from Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Croatia, really any European country as Hungarian Nobility married Nobility from those countries.
If interested in this topic consider the heritage of Dowager Princess TNT, otherwise known as Gloria of Thurn und Taxis who was given seven names at birth. At 19 this Countess, who was waiting tables, married a much older man in Germany, an aging Prince without heirs and an estate valued somewhere between a half a billion and over two billion. Two of her unmarried children are on most eligible lists today. Her mother is Countess Beatrix Szechenyi de Sarver - Felsovidek.
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