At 03:54 PM 1/5/2006, you wrote: >where is this town in Texas? it is mentioned as the birthplace of a >relative in the 1920 census, and there is either another word or an >extension of Goff after it. the enumerator wrote Texas supercased >over the second part, and I can't make it out. Look at Goff in the Handbook of Texas website at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ There are several references to the name. Maybe you can go from there. Otherwise I would look at the county website in US GenWeb. Good Luck!

thank you, Bob, that's a lot of help as the site is very useful. unfortunately the two Goff's mentioned aren't the one I'm looking at. the two listed are Goff Bayou and Goff, Benson. the one I'm looking at looks like Goff Ruguilo???? there's no tail of a g below the line, so it may not be a g. there's no Goff under the USGenWeb TX site under Texas Towns. Goff being a surname and a common one, ferreting the town name out of the archives is impossible. a check of the county didn't help, either. Cornelia -- Norton Antivirus protected ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Battaglia" <bobbatt@satx.rr.com> To: <TXANDERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [[TXANDERS]] town of Goff or Goff*.... > At 03:54 PM 1/5/2006, you wrote: >>where is this town in Texas? it is mentioned as the birthplace of a >>relative in the 1920 census, and there is either another word or an >>extension of Goff after it. the enumerator wrote Texas supercased over the >>second part, and I can't make it out. > > Look at Goff in the Handbook of Texas website at > http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/ > There are several references to the name. Maybe you can go from there. > Otherwise I would look at the county website in US GenWeb. Good Luck! >