The goal of the project is to find common ancestors and the differences between various Germanic Tribal groups using the Y-DNA of men from both sides of the North Sea.. 
This Y-DNA project was created to find common geographical, historical and patrilineal links among those who believe they have an early English/Anglo-Saxon or Frisian heritage and those who live in, or have ancestry, from the Germanic continental homelands in modern Denmark, NW Germany and The Netherlands - the lands which were once occupied by the North Sea Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians etc. We are a project for those who are interested in learning more about these early-medieval Germanic peoples, their migrations and our possible genetic connection to them. Using Y-DNA and Ancient genetic samples we will attempt to establish our ancient patrilineal connections with these Germanic tribes and their migrations along the North Sea Coastlines and on into post-Roman Britain. By 'Anglo-Saxon' this project means the peoples of early-medieval eastern and southern Great Britain and the ancestral locations from which they hail on the north-western part of the European continental mainland.
On our DNA chart we will attempt to place our members kits in groups that have a shared SNP(haplogroup) which fits into the Anglo-Saxon/North sea Germanic migration period - approximately 350CE to 550CE.

Old English surnames

Adlam, Ashley, Alden, Beasant, Blakemore,Bourne, Brown,Buckley, Bunce, Burlingame, Bush, Burbridge, Cheek, Clemonts, Coope Coldwell, Cotton, Crompton, Crutchley, Currington,Crowder,Claridge,Duke,Dukes, Earle, Fisc, Fiske,Foy,GarsideGarthside Gartside, Godwin ,Goodwin, Gale, Graham, Harrison, Helton, Holt,Hamet,Hammett, Johnson, Keats, Lee, Lennon,Lock, Luxford, Mabbott, Melling, Melton, Mildenhall, Mendenhall, Newbury, Newberry, Newbery, Oldham, Outerbridge, Penney, Penny, Reeve, Reeves, Rudge, Rudges , Ruidge, Roidge, Rutdge, Rutge, Rudych, Rutch, Rutche, Ruitge,Rivers, Read, Rischer, Rischer, Sagar, Sherman, Sharman, Shearman, Shurman, Smith, Smit, Smithe, Smither, Smithers, Smithies, Smithy, Smyth, and Smythe, Spooner, Sweet, Sweete, Swett, Swet, Sweat, Stampes, Stamper, Thorne, Thorne, Torp, Thorp, Thorpe, Twynam,Taylor, Townsend, Townend, Ward , Watt, Wheatley, Whatley, Whitley, Wheatleigh, Whitney, Withers, Wyther, Wither, Williams, Wimberley.

Frisian Surnames

Krull, Kruse, Kühl, Lafrenz, Liesche, Loose, Maas, Mackeprang, Marquardt, Meislahn, Micheel, Mildenstein, Olderog, Petersen, Pott, Prüssing, Rahlf, Ramberg, Rauert, Reimer, Rickert, Rieck, Riessen, Röpke, Rosenberger, Ruge, Sähn, Sass, Scheel, Schmalfeldt, Schmidt, Schwenn, Schult, Schümann, Schütt, Schwiesau, Sengerob, Serk, Sievert, Spangenberg, Spieckermann, Stender, Stockfisch, Störtenbecker, Stöterog, Suchsdorf, Tardel, Thode, Thomsen, Tiedemann, Treimer, Venninghausen, Unbehauen, Voderberg, Voss, Wacker, Weiland, Wendel, Wiepert, Wilder, Wilken, Wisser, Witt, Wittrock, Wohler, Wulf.