Original: In addition to designing and granting new arms , the College fields many requests from people attempting to demonstrate descent from an armigerous ( arms-bearing ) person ; a person descended in the male line ( or through heraldic heiresses ) from such an ancestor may be reissued that ancestor 's arms ( with differencing marks if necessary to distinguish from senior-line cousins ) .
Simplified: As well as designing and granting new arms , the College tries to answers many requests from people trying to prove that they are descended from an armigerous ( arms-bearing ) person ; a person descended in the male line ( or through heraldic heiresses ) from an armiger may be reissued that ancestor 's arms .