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One of the questions that the project has explored is whether or not the Boggs line was originally Livingston and changed to Boggs in the 1600’s in Ireland. The project has identified quite a few different Livingston lines. The primary Boggs haplogroup has been identified as R-Z29953. FTDNA estimates that this haplogroup R-Z29953 was formed about 900 CE and that the common ancestor of this line was born about 1300 with a range of +-150 years. The dating of the R-Z29953 makes the Livingston story implausible. The R-Z29953 haplogroup is part of the Little Scottish Cluster of haplogroup R-CTS2187. Because this is an old Scottish haplogroup, this line could not linked to the Livingston line that was either Ango-Saxon or continental European.
Could the Boggs line be connected to one of the many Livingston lines that adopted the surname because they served the Livingston family or because the lived on their vast land holdings?
Boggs do share the SNP Z18000 with a Livingston line that were colliers in Dalgetty.
CTS2187>FGC3215>ZZ23>Y12464>ZZ25>Z17998>Y16002>Z17999>R-Z18000>FT38321>Z29953
The common ancestor of R-Z18000 was born about 900CE. This time frame does not fit the Ireland of 1600 story. Boggs also share the Z18000 SNP with Bogle line. So the root “Bog” surname goes back quite a long time. It doesn’t appear that the Boggs surname has changed significantly over the millennia. There are other variants such as Boag, Bogues and Bogart.
The story that a Livingston changed his name to Boggs must be ruled as false.