This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WAUGH, VAUGHT, VOGT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZYVBAEB/458 Message Board Post: I am currently researching my Vaught family history and have come to a brick wall with one Johan Paulus Vogt (later Vaught) b. 1680 in Frankfurt, Germany. The reason I am posting on this board is that someone has suggested on the VAUGHT boards that VAUGHT...the "modern" spelling for VOGT, actually originated with the WAUGH family out of Scotland and they claim the roots go back to the 14th century. I have tried to find any connection and short of a misspelled name, have found none. Does anyone researching the WAUGH family have any info on a branch reolocating to Germany pre-1680? I do know that often the VAUGHT name was misspelled by English scribes in the 1700s as WAUGH. Thank you for any assistance! Steven Vaught