Traced in the DNA

Your surname is older than your family thinks it is.
 
Every name has a layer underneath the spelling — a Norse personal name,
a Brittonic word for a valley, a nickname handed to someone eight
hundred years ago and never taken back. English record-keepers buried
most of it. We dig it back out.
 
This channel traces surnames to their origin: where the name actually
came from, what it meant before the clerks got hold of it, and what
your DNA results are trying to tell you that the pie chart never
explains.
 
Documented history. No fabricated bloodlines, no royal descent
fantasies. When the evidence is thin, we say so.
 
New surname investigations weekly.
 
Find your line: dnaorigin.org