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Our First GGFA Virtual Gathering
June 26, 2021 4:00 – 6:30 Eastern (US)
- “Navigating our New GGFA Website” – Bob Inhoff, GGFA Webmaster
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UPDATE: Mark Saturday afternoons, June 26 and September 25 for special virtual GGFA events. Details coming soon.
April 2021 Newsletter now available
The April 2021 (Spring) issue of Goffs/Goughs – Their Ancestors and Descendants is now available. Guests can view the April 2021 Table of Contents, while Members can access this new issue and all previous newsletters going back to 1982.
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From our GGFA Blog
William Goff 1792 VA – 1870 MO, son of a Trent?
Phillip G. Goff, GGFA DNA Project Manager According the 1850 and 1860 Washington Co., MO federal censuses, William Goff was born ca. 1791/92 in Virginia. A 1950 transcription by Fannie E. Frey of an 1816 letter, asserts that William Goff’s father was not a Goff: “I Robert Heaton of Davidson […]
Exploring our Website – Newsletter Archive
The gem of our archives is our 40-year collection of Goffs/Goughs: Their Ancestors and Descendants, our quarterly journal of research and discoveries shared by GGFA members. It includes nearly 160 editions with more than 4,500 pages. if you would like to know more about navigating the Newsletter Archive, you may […]
Our Goff – Gough Surname Origins
The Gough and Goff surnames have deep roots in England. Each surname, Gough and Goff, was spelled and pronounced differently than today when first adopted as hereditary family names in the late 13th century. The original Goch morphed into Gogh, which is Gough today. The Goffe surname, predecessor to Goff, […]