June 7, 2008
In the background is a recent family photo from Christmas 2007. We had everyone home except for Kevin who is serving in the US Army in Afghanistan at this time. He and Sarah are shown in the inset. For our family photo pages go to www.rogerdugan.com.
I've been researching my family since May of 1995 when I found the identity of
my great-grandfather on the Dugan side whose surname I bore, but new little
about. I got hooked on genealogy. In the past five years, we have discovered
cousins from far and wide we weren't aware of and now have over 1400 names on
the family tree.
Most of the families listed here have roots in Southeastern Ohio dating back to
1820, particularly in Muskingum, Morgan, Washington, and Licking Counties.
Cities include Zanesville, McConnelsville, Malta, Reinersville, Beverly,
Waterford, and Newark. Others came from West Virginia. Many migrated to
Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington
and who knows where else. Of course, now we are scattered to the four winds
throughout the USA. My wife and I relocated to TN in 1992. Our children are in
Italy (military), TX, and WI. Many relatives have remained in Ohio and we
anticipate finding many cousins still living there.
If you know the whereabouts or names of any of those people we can't find,
please send me an e-mail at r.dugan@ieee.org. Be sure to check out the notes, which give what
information we've found or surmised.
DUGAN researchers are referred to Lyman Duggan's Duggan/Dugan/Dougan newsletter
that you should find at http://duggan-family.org/. If the site has moved, do a search. You might also
try the DUGAN list at Rootsweb.
Other names we are researching: WHITEHOUSE,
OFFORD, and BROEDEL. The WHITEHOUSE researchers are fairly active on the Web.
There is a WHITEHOUSE discussion list on Rootsweb that you can join.
Since 1998, I have concentrated on the OFFORD side. The OFFORD name had been
rare on the Web until 1999. Until then, it seems that I was supplying about 90%
of the US research. I edit the OFFORD Roots Newsletter, which is also posted on this site. Many of the
photos referenced below are related to Alexander OFFORD and Hannah CALLAGHAN
who settled the farm I grew up on in Ohio.
In 2002, we were contacted by collateral lines from the CALLAGHAN and LEE side
as well as others from the John OFFORD (Alexander's brother) line. The website
now contains some of their data. For more information on the CALLAGHAN/LEE line
contact Robert Bowen.
I hope that we will have done a good service by making this information
available.
My thanks to Gene Stark and his GED2HTML program which makes the conversion
from GEDCOM to HTML a snap!
Also, thanks to Dede Dugan Busk who has
collected and entered the data on the Albert Dugan line.
The Kinney line was supplied by David M. Kinney.
The Isaac Whitehouse/Nancy McGrath connection to their ancestors comes courtesy
of Linda Foltz and we greatly appreciate her contribution. That line is
documented going back into the 1300's with prominent names being RICHARDSON,
BLACKINGTON, etc.... we have only an excerpt here. I used to refer questions to
Linda, but I learned in Dec 2000 that she passed away from a heart attack in
June 2000. If you are interested in being the main contact for the WEEKS side
of the Whitehouse line, please let me know.