An original crest, not a stock shield
Every surname has a story. We give it a crest, a motto, and the myth of how it began.
Housemyth designs your family an original coat of arms and a founding-myth booklet, woven from the real stories you tell us. Not a template with your name pasted on.
Delivered as a digital, print-ready file. Free early access, no card.
Example
House of Winterbourne
“Unbroken Against Tide”
Why not just use a free generator
The free generators give you a shield. We give you a story.
Search “family crest generator” and you will find plenty of tools, and plenty of Etsy shops, that put your surname on the same handful of stock shields everyone else gets. What none of them do is write a founding story that is actually about your family: the nickname, the running joke, the thing everyone repeats at the holiday table.
Not genealogy - a playful, original piece of heraldic art built from what you tell us.
How it actually works
- You give us your surname and one or two real family details - a nickname, an in-joke, a story that gets repeated every reunion.
- We design an original crest and motto for your surname, then write a short founding-myth booklet that weaves in what you told us.
- You get back a digital, print-ready file: the crest alone, or the crest plus the booklet.
Try it yourself
Build your family's crest, right now
Type your surname below. Add one real detail and watch the motto and the founding myth change - this is a small, live version of the real thing.
Try it - type any surname
House of Whitlock
“Steadfast Beside Tide”
Long before anyone wrote it down, the House of Whitlock took a rampant lion as its mark: courage that does not need an audience. When the first Whitlock stood their ground at the gate, so the story goes, the lion simply refused to look away.
The crest above is your family's identity: every relative who shares your surname gets the same shield, the way a real coat of arms works. Add a real detail above and watch the motto and myth get rewritten around it.
From the roll of arms
Three examples, so you can see the range
Plate I
House of Okonkwo
“Unbroken Through Doubt”
Plate II
House of Farrow
“Faithful Above Tide”
Plate III
House of Beaumont
“Watchful Beside Fire”
Questions before you commit an email
Frequently asked
- No - Housemyth is not genealogy research and does not claim your family holds a historic, legally-armigerous coat of arms. It is a playful, original piece of heraldic art: a crest, motto and founding-myth booklet designed for your surname, built from the real details you give us.
- A digital, print-ready file: the crest poster on its own for $35, or the crest plus a founding-myth booklet PDF for $59. Everything is delivered as a download - there is no physical printing or shipping.
- That is the whole point. Tell us the nicknames, the running jokes, the story everyone repeats at holidays - the booklet is written to weave those in, not to hand you a generic template with your name swapped in.
- The free generators (and most paid ones) put your surname on a stock shield. Housemyth designs an original crest for your family and writes a founding-myth story from your real details - the part a template cannot do.
Planned pricing
Planned pricing. Free early access, no card, no sales call.
$35
Crest poster
- An original crest designed for your surname
- Your family motto, written from your details
- Digital, print-ready file, delivered by email
$59
Crest + founding-legend booklet
- Everything in the crest poster
- A founding-myth booklet weaving in your real family details
- Digital, print-ready file, delivered by email
Get your family's Surname Saga first
Join early access and we will write to you the day Housemyth opens - no card, no sales call.