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It's been a year since I posted here that I would discontinue doing free small 3" x 3" cross-stitch charts of heraldic charges, and said then that over the course of the next year, the previous year's worth of such charts would slowly disappear. Well, we have nearly come to that time, and only one, the last, remains downloadable from our Free Stuff page. If you are interested in it, you just have this month to download it, after which it, too, will disappear.

That said, it - and all the others over the years - are still available in our collection of twenty-one years of these small (3" x 3") cross-stitch charts of heraldic charges. 252 (count 'em! That's 252) needlework charts of heraldic charges on a CD-ROM or USB drive at one low price for the entire collection. You can find a list of all of the heraldic charges in this large collection, and order it on CD-ROM or USB drive, here on our Needlework page. Or see our Order page for our order forms.

And, of course, while I have retired from writing brand new Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs Goes to the Movies movie reviews, you can still read a new review each month here, as well as purchase the complete collection of 38 Years of Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs Goes to the Movies. This collection now contains 458 (No, really! Four hundred fifty-eight! Though it's a number not evenly divisible by twelve because over the years there have been a few times when your erstwhile movie reviewer Da'ud Bob reviewed more than one movie in a month; a "double feature," if you will. Or even if you won't) movie reviews, plus an alphabetical listing with the month and year in which each review was first published, and, as a bonus, a PowerPoint program, "You Might Be Watching a Da'ud Bob Movie If..." (As only one example from this humorous presentation: "If chickens are used as missile weapons ... against Roman legionaries ... You might be watching a Da'ud Bob movie." No, really! See the movie Druids, which I reviewed in December 2004.) This updated collection is available on CD-ROM or a USB drive, and can be found for sale on the Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs introductory page or through the Order Page on this website.

A little while back I heard about another source for coats of arms used by Americans: the Annual Reports of the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. This Committee is, of course, the same which publishes A Roll of Arms, in booklet form for Parts 1 through 9, as a hardcover book of Parts 1 through 10, and Part 11 in the NEHGS quarterly magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Part 12 is supposed to be published in the Register before very long. When it is, these arms, too, will be added.) The arms and crests in Parts 1 through 11 have already been included in my American Heraldry Collection, which is available for free on this website.

Anyway, as I said, I have run across a new source: the Committee on Heraldry has posted a few of their annual reports on the NEHGS's American Ancestors website, in some of which they note the registrations by the Committee of "Modern Coats of Arms" (granted by an heraldic authority or assumed by the armiger), so I've gone out and, in the instances where they have published the name of the armiger and the blazons of the arms and (sometimes) crests so registered, have added them to my American Heraldry Collection. This recently-updated Collection, consisting of a Word document with explanatory text and a listing of sources and their abbreviations used, and an Excel spreadsheet than can be search or manipulated in various ways by the researcher, can be downloaded as a single .zip file at: http://www.appletonstudios.com/American_Heraldry_Collection.zip If you have an interest in coats of arms and crests borne by Americans from colonial days up to the present, you may find this Collection to be of some use in your research.