Welcome to Episode 65 of our series on the surnames of Appalachia and the American South. On today’s show, we will go in search of the origins and meanings of nine more requested family names, including several that will lead us to the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, France, Greece, England, and the biblical lands. I hope you’ll join me.

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