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• Step 1, come up with some ideas. Look through the Herald's book for some things you might like. You can also look around online at the website.  Names here, armory for devices here.
  I "scanned them into computer" by taking some little phone pics that I put in the computer to work with.
• Have no idea where to start? Chat with your group's Herald first and foremost! They're there to help you with this, after all.
• Step 2, flip through the Heraldic primer to see how your ideas might work up. Think on how to put them together in a way that you find visually appealing.
  I went through several variations as I worked out what I might want.
• Step 3, draw it on paper. See how it looks.
  Or do it digitally in the computer if you can and want; I enjoyed doing mine that way.
• Step 4, Now talk to your local herald or other friends who are interested and able to see what might be right or wrong needing adjusting. Names and Devices must not break certain rules.
  Friends who have gone through the process before, especially those who have previously or are interested in the future in holding the Herald's position are good go-to folks for this in addition of course to your group's own current Herald, never instead of. ;) But it can help your Herald out if you have some ideas thought up and worked out a bit, once you get ready to start moving forward in a submission process.
• You will need to have the right proof for names, and the right emblazon or wording written out for your device.
• Search your device and name online, once you have the wording down, to be sure there are no conflicts.
• When you are ready, fill out the submission papers! Your group's Herald will help you with this. If you want you can print off the submission forms from online.

(just an old post in progress I forgot to move to this journal)

Name:

Submitter desires a name of Welsh origin for reasons of ancestry, with surname holding meaning to her English heritage, through the placename of Will Ford.  


Welsh 13th century name structure followed the pattern of given name followed by byname: being one of patronym, descriptive nickname, occupation, or place-name.


Aranwen
Arianwen
Arganwen can be traced back to 5th century \ ar-YAHN-wen\


Arganwen de Rhyd-helyg "Aranwen of Willow Ford"


Rhyd-helg, Welsh for Willow Ford.  Eluded to in Welsh poetry.

The history of the Williford family name begins after the Norman Conquest of 1066. They lived in Nottinghamshire, at Wilford. This placename is derived from the name Norman-French name Will, a pet form of William and the word ford, meaning a river crossing, and indicates that the ford in question belonged to William.

Device:

Argent, an oak tree proper blasted and eradicated, 
a base barry wavy azure and argent,
in chief three ravens sable elevated and addorsed.


(Wings addorsed are raised as if about to take flight, so that only the top of the bird's right wing shows behind the fully displayed left wing.)