Hi....I have always heard it referred to as the "Harrowing of the North"......this page seems to explain it very well and to dispel some of the rumors: _http://everything2.com/title/Harrowing+of+the+North_ (http://everything2.com/title/Harrowing+of+the+North) mary lou In a message dated 3/19/2010 6:08:26 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi everyone I was looking for some clarification regarding to the event called "The Waste" in Yorkshire after the Norman Conquest. On another list there is quite some debate about the TOTAL eradication of the population ( Which I find hard to believe) , and it replacement by people from surrounding areas. Can anyone shed some light on this, as I am keenly interested, as my family has been in West Yorkshire since around the conquest, and possibly before. My DNA results indicate we are neither Norman or Norse, but rather pre Celtic, so I am wondering if we survived the waste or wandered in from somewhere soon afterwards? Any comments would be appreciated. Steve Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message