swedeangel64: I have seen a black and white picture of the REAL Coat of Arms.... Beware of the on-line stuff, they make them up and charge you money for it. There are tons of names they claim have a Coat if Arms, but never did. Like my father's last name Holmberg. There's no Coat of Arms for that lastname, but according to the web we have several! :)) According to family history on my mom's side, the original shield can be found in a museum somewhere in Europe. Wish I could remember where! I do remember that the original have 3 feathers on top. Supposedly all Trojanowskis with variation in spelling and branches such as Trojanow, Trojan etc all herald from the same family out of Greece very very very long ago. There's an anekdote/curse that I was told by my uncle about the brothers Trojanow /Trojanowski (don't know how true that's either)... I'm trying to translate as well as I can so bare with me. "There were three brothers, and they all wanted to be the one in power, so one brother slew the first and the third slew the second, hence Trojanowski siblings can never get along." Which I must say is VERY true in my mother's family! :)) Unfortunately it's all I can recall and my uncle who did the research has passed away. Again, beware the on-line so called heraldic sites, they are scams!
I went and looked at the Ogonczyk Coat of Arms and that's not the picture I remember even though according this link:polonians.com/polish-nobility-coats-of-arms/ogonczyk_families-awa rded-the-ogonczyk-coat-of-arms_9.html the Tjojanowski family was awarded the Ogonczyk Coat of Arms. It is possible that the Trojanowski family later got their own???!!!
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