This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GOFF GAWF GOUGH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5MZ.2ACEB/950.2.1 Message Board Post: Barbara, Is your husband's surname also Goff? If so, or if he has a Goff relative who descends from D. L. Goff, I urge you to sign up your husband to participate in the Goff Surname DNA Study at http://home.comcast.net/~philgoff/GoffDNA.htm. We have so far determined 7 "different" Goff/Gough/Gawf families are actually part of three very closed related groups. In other words, the DNA study linked families that had no previously known connection through historical records. Details are at http://home.comcast.net/~philgoff/DNAresults.htm. So many male Goffs have participated so far that there is a good chance that we can find the family to which D. L. Goff belonged. Thanks, Phil Goff