by Peter Clarkson, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom I started my family research about 10 years ago. I was mainly interested in my maternal grandfather’s side of the family and it’s fair to say that over the ten years of research that side of my family has provided a rich seam […]
by Phillip G. Goff, GGFA Director of Genetic Genealogy This is the fifth of a ten-part series on early Goffe families in England. The East Sussex Record Office (ESRO) maintains a database of online historical records. In East Sussex, like elsewhere in the south and east of England, Goffe is […]
by Phillip G. Goff, GGFA Director of Genetic Genealogy This is the fourth of a ten-part series on early Goffe families in England. The West Sussex (UK) Record Office (“WSRO”) maintains a database of online historical records. In West Sussex, like elsewhere in the south and east of England, Goffe […]
by Phillip G. Goff, GGFA Director of Genetic Genealogy This is the third of a ten-part series on early Goffe families in England. The Hampshire (UK) Record Office (“HRO”) maintains a database of online historical records. In Hampshire, like elsewhere in the south and east of England, Goffe is the […]
by Phillip G. Goff, GGFA Director of Genetic Genealogy This is the second of a 10-part series on early Goffe families in England. The Dorset History Centre (DHC) maintains a database of online historical records. In Dorset, like elsewhere in the south and east of England, Goffe is the earliest […]
by Phillip G. Goff, GGFA DNA Project Manager Australia’s first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, which started publishing in 1803. Goff and Gough families were in Australia in the early 19th century and appear in numerous columns. Here is a peek into these early mentions in newspapers […]
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 […]
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, […]
A few years ago I received the will of my third great grandfather, Abner Goff (1782-1857). For more than three decades Abner Goff was a Methodist Circuit Rider, serving churches in central and north central Ohio. For me three things about the experience of discovering this will are worth noting. First, I discovered […]