This website is an extension of the book, Our Folks by Maron Summer Eve. The book provided an outline format of the known descendants of the first Goggans to come to the USA. I am continuing the work, using internet records for genealogy and DNA tools for the extended family. The original book was an amazing work, considering most of the information was gathered in the 1970's and 1980's in county courthouses in the southern US or by communicating directly with families that were known to be descendants. It is believed that William Goggans came to colonial America from Ireland or Wales around 1718. I have not discovered any solid documentation of exactly where was born or departed from to come to America. With the advent of the internet and digitized public records (plus the passage of time), the tree grows enormously. For the books authors, traveling from South Carolina to beyond eastern Mississippi in the '70's and '80's did not seem part of the original scope, even though a great many descendants had moved to TX, OK, UT, CA, and many other places. The extended genealogy seeks to include DNA match people and their ancestors back to a common member of our shared family/tree. This explodes the potential size of the database and tree, going back 6 generations or more.
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