The name, STREETER, is of English origin and designates one who lives near an ancient roman road or on the main street of a village; it is almost exclusively unique to Sussex. It is a variation of Street, which comes from the Old English stroet for roman road which comes from the Latin strata, from the past participle of sternere, to strew, cover, surface. Other variations include STRETE, STREETE, STREETS, STREATER, and STREAT (Patricia Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames, [Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988]). Thus, with few exceptions, all STREETERs worldwide can trace their roots to Southeast England. However, multiple families may have adopted STREETER as their surname so not all STREETERs are related. Hence the need for a STREETER DNA Project to identify all of the founding STREETER families and enable their living descendants in England and abroad to make further progress towards identifying their respective STREETER lineages. The web content for the STREETER DNA project (launched in 2003) has been thoroughly updated and the results are now organized by the places of origins within Sussex & Kent for the earliest known STREETER of each family. For more information, please see the project site at... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~streeter/DNA/ For more general links to all-things-STREETER, please see The Streeter Family Association site at... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~streeter/sfa/ Perry Streeter (mailto:perry@streeter.com) List Owner, STREETER@rootsweb.com Greenwood, New York USA http://www.perry.streeter.com