About us
THE FOGWELL/VOGWILL & VARIANTS FAMILY DNA PROJECT is a Y-DNA genealogy project for males with a direct paternal line which descends from a member (a "Family Member") of the Fogwell/Vogwill/Fogwill/Vogwell family which originated in Devon, England (the “Family”). (Paternal line relates to one’s father, one’s father's father, one’s father's father's father, etc. ancestral line.)
Since females cannot do the Y-DNA test and therefore provide relevant Y-DNA data, their joining the project won't help them with their genealogy unless they can get one or more male members of their Fogwell, Vogwill, etc. line, even if it is a distant Fogwell, Vogwill, etc. male cousin, both to do a Y-DNA test and to join our project. If you are a female and can get such a family member to do this, then your joining this project would make sense.
The Project will also accept individuals with certain variants of the name if there is a Y-DNA match on a minimum of 37 markers and if, in the view of the Project Administrator, there is a good chance that the family line in question is in fact related by DNA to the Family. Name variants which appear in vital records and census documents of Devon include Foguille, Foggwell, Fagwill, Vogwall, Voggwell, Voghill.
Family members currently live several countries including the U.S, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina.
***BEFORE APPLYING TO JOIN THIS PROJECT, PLEASE FIRST READ THE FOLLOWING***
To join this Project, participants must have a documented connection (e.g., paper documentation or Gedcom file) either to a male Family Member on the direct paternal line for the Y-DNA test, or to a female Family Member on the direct maternal line for the mtDNA test.
The project is also collecting “Family Finder” autosomal DNA test results.
Since females cannot do the Y-DNA test and therefore provide relevant Y-DNA data, their joining the project won't help them with their genealogy unless they can get one or more male members of their Fogwell, Vogwill, etc. line, even if it is a distant Fogwell, Vogwill, etc. male cousin, both to do a Y-DNA test and to join our project. If you are a female and can get such a family member to do this, then your joining this project would make sense.
The Project will also accept individuals with certain variants of the name if there is a Y-DNA match on a minimum of 37 markers and if, in the view of the Project Administrator, there is a good chance that the family line in question is in fact related by DNA to the Family. Name variants which appear in vital records and census documents of Devon include Foguille, Foggwell, Fagwill, Vogwall, Voggwell, Voghill.
Family members currently live several countries including the U.S, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina.
***BEFORE APPLYING TO JOIN THIS PROJECT, PLEASE FIRST READ THE FOLLOWING***
To join this Project, participants must have a documented connection (e.g., paper documentation or Gedcom file) either to a male Family Member on the direct paternal line for the Y-DNA test, or to a female Family Member on the direct maternal line for the mtDNA test.
The project is also collecting “Family Finder” autosomal DNA test results.