I've just completed a DVD movie about early PACE Christenings in several parishes, UK counties of Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, on my travels there, over the years, and looking at my collection of booklets I purchaced, here and there, which give the reader a good account of early England, when it was still French from the Norman period of William the Conquerer. The Pacy sur/de Eure peoples had assisted William with his former ally Harold in his successful conflict, in 1066, and were compensated. At this time, many Norman churches were built in England. This is a time when masonary obviously became a substantial building technique in England as suddenly, magnificant church buildings went up, all over England and our PACE ancestors were Christened in them, as I've illustrated in this DVD. As far as DNA of today's PACE descendents is concerned, one should remember that William compensated those that helped him from Pacy/de Eure, and area of France. To be more specific, William compensated those from Pacy of the River Eure district of France. These people did not happen to be from the same family, they were from many families. The commonality was that they helped him and they probably took the name Pacy sur Eure and as surnames developed in the post Saxon era, the "sur/de" was probably dropped and the Pacy, later variations of it occured, so no doubt, various DNA results of peoples of this surname or variations of it would occur today in descendents. The name came from a region of France, not a specific family. The name had a meaning, The meaning is well known in the Italian language. That is another story, obviously, but not here, today. In business, in former years, when customers got to know what my name was, I was treated with respect, especially by Italians, as I still have Italian friends today, and this is a very respected name in the Balkan area of Europe. I would say, we are blessed, to be of such a name. So for DNA purposes, it is no wonder that so many different lines of PACE, or variants of it, are to be found in DNA research work, today. Just keep ploughing ahead. GTPace in Canada