GOFF(Is this a German Surname?)
JJen1957
I often heard my father say that he was Pennsylvania Dutch;therefore, would
this mean of German ancestry? Does anyone know if Goff is a German surname? I
am working on a Goff geneaology. If anyone else is doing so, let's correspond.
My e-mail is JJen...@aol.com Thanks, Janet Goff Jenkins
Michael Glueckert
JJen1957 schrieb:
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> I often heard my father say that he was Pennsylvania Dutch;therefore,
> would this mean of German ancestry?
Yes.
> Does anyone know if Goff is a German surname?
I am not sure if this name is a historic German name, but at least you can
find it in the current German phonebook. The 23 entries are well spread
across former West Germany, so they might have a refugee origin (from
Silesia, Bohemia or so).
HTH
Mike
Richweig
Hi Janet, My wife's name was Goff. She is definetly not German. Irish and
Scotch. Actually her Goffs were from Wales as far as we can guess. The Goff
line has been traced back to about 1708 and to Maryland. Most of her relatives
came into Virginia and then through the Cumberland Gap and settled in Kentucky.
I have lots of information on her family, thanks to others that have done
research on the family name. I can share most of it with you if you like. Who
are your Goff's from Pa?
Rich Weigel (definetly German)
Carsten Läkamp
On 11 Feb 1998 18:26:57 GMT, jjen...@aol.com (JJen1957) wrote in
message <19980211182...@ladder03.news.aol.com>:
>I often heard my father say that he was Pennsylvania Dutch;therefore, would
>this mean of German ancestry? Does anyone know if Goff is a German surname? I
>am working on a Goff geneaology. If anyone else is doing so, let's correspond.
Thinking of one of the American pronunciations of "Van Gogh".... maybe
he was "really" Dutch.
--
Carsten Läkamp
Strasbourg, Alsace, France, EU
e-mail: clae...@club-internet.fr
ICQ: 3082091
Helmut H. AGENA, HH
Moin,
NO it is not! I looked up the 400000 entrances of the Deutsches
Geschlechterbuch for you and found none. Just two Goffo! So i assume the
today phone entries are those of refugees and migrating people
During last century we had crowds leaving german speaking countries but we
even had a migration West into Germany (as we now have from the Far East
and Africa)
Sorry,
but negeative research results are even results with an saspect of
exclusion!
Good hunting!
Perhaps you look up the phone愀 list and write to some of these Goffs.
--
Helmut H. Agena
Hamburg
HAgen...@aol.com
Projekt: Genealogie der Agena aus Ostfrieslan in D, NL. USA etc.
Michael Glueckert <W.M.Gl...@t-online.de> schrieb im Beitrag
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| JJen1957 schrieb:
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| > I often heard my father say that he was Pennsylvania Dutch;therefore,
| > would this mean of German ancestry?
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| Yes.
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| > Does anyone know if Goff is a German surname?
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> I often heard my father say that he was Pennsylvania Dutch;therefore, would
English Breton/Cornish version of the name tranlates to Smith.
The name is primarily considered Welsh (not Irish, not Scottish but in the Welsh part of the Celtic family)