got tired of guessing where the name Echard came from originally, so I did a Y plex DNA test. It seems that my line from Angus, Angus Walter, John and William deriving from Rockport Virginia and Staunton Virginia comes fromChemnitz germany and prior to that from Gotland Sweden. Gotland of course is where get the name of Goths, and was a key center of Viking culture. But once population existed prior to any of the current Germanic States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden or Norway. It was part of Denmark, Germany and now Sweden. I am not sure whether the line drive from Christian and Frantz accord or echard is the same family are not, however if a male bearing the Eckhart name from that lineage, would like to take a Y chromozone test, we can find out.