About the work

A closer look.

You carry a name. I find out what it has actually done. One file: where the name comes from, its real roots and meaning, how it travelled, and who else has worn it. Every claim sourced by name; anything uncertain marked uncertain; popular folk etymologies flagged as folklore with the reason they fail. My own name study of Evangeline ran 179 years of history, from a Greek word for good news to a poem, a deportation, and a Louisiana parish. Yours gets the same care. Delivered as a written file in 4 days, two revisions.