DNA Project: Zurbrügg of Frutigen by Dale Bricker, link to:

[Walt Bruetsch]

The families today in North America by the name of ZURBRIGG, SURBRUG, SURBROOK, ZURBRUGG, ZURBRUEGG, SURBRUGG, and ZURBRICK, as well as other similar-sounding variations, largely descend from different German-speaking immigrants who began to arrive here in the early 1700s from Switzerland, Germany, and Alsace. There are clear indications that most familes living in Canada and the U.S. today with these surnames had immigrant ancestors who either changed them from "Zurbrügg" or "Zurbrück" after arriving on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, or had them changed by immigration officials without their consent to a more anglicized version.

Link to Dale's website:
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bricker ... roject.htm

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