About us
The Ogle name is thought to have been taken from a place name. There is still an Ogle village in Northumberland. I hypothesize Oghgul and Ogle to be the same people based on the reading of Nennius's "Historia Brittonum" see chapters 31, 37, and 38.
1) The name was established well before dictionaries, so spelling was in the writers ear. The Germanic phonetic pronunciation of "Oghgul" and the later English pronunciation of "Ogle (long O - gle as in tingle)" are the same. Current German pronouncation of Ogle is "O-glay". To get the same sound in present day German Ogle would be spelled "Ogel".
2) The Family owned large tracts of land in Northumberland prior to 1066 (the Norman Invasion).
Ogle Family DNA Project
Background
Ours is a story of two projects. One was founded by Ed Ogle in 2003, called the Oghgul DNA Project, the other, the Ogle Family DNA Project, was founded in 2004. As the two had overlapping areas of interest. Both Jim and Ed remain active in their respective projects. In 2009, the Ogle/Ogles Family Association, Inc. board voted to officially sponsor the activities of the Ogle Family DNA Project. Our project has two on-going tasks: Ogle/Ogles Y-chromosome testing; the Ogle Family Daughters Project.
Ogle/Ogles Y-chromosome testing
Most prevalent in the area of testing, the intent of the task is to collect samples from as many men of the name Ogle or Ogles as possible, including information on their proven lines of descent. Through testing of their Y-chromosomes, and taking the rates of mutation into account, we hope to get a better picture of the relationships among different branches, and provide clues how one ancestor may be linked to other known individuals in the family. It is the O/OFA Board’s sincere hope that, with enough information from the various lines around the world, additional clues may be determined on the parentage of John Ogle of Delaware (c. 1648-c. 1684), progenitor of most Ogle/Ogle descendants in the United States. For further information, contact the Ogle Family DNA Administrator, Jim Gilbert.
Ogle Family Daughters Project
The Ogle Family Daughters Project is a short term task that seeks descendants from two Ogle women whose parentage have been puzzles: is Elizabeth Ogle (m. James Andrews, d. 1787) the daughter of CAPT Joseph Ogle (1747-1821) and his first wife, Prudence Drusilla Biggs, or of his brother Jacob Ogle and Jacob’s wife Mary Wilson/White? Is Drusilla Ogle the daughter of CAPT Joseph Ogle his child by his first wife Prudence Drusilla Biggs, or by his second wife, Jemima Meigs? By tracking down living descendants who can trace an unbroken line of females back to these two women (or to other, documented daughters for these unions), and gaining consent to test their mitochondrial DNA (i.e, DNA passed from mother to all her children, to only those grandchildren whose mothers were her daughters, and so on), we hope to answer these questions. Criteria for selection of candidates were provided in the Spring 2009 issue of Ogling for Ogles, available on this website.
1) The name was established well before dictionaries, so spelling was in the writers ear. The Germanic phonetic pronunciation of "Oghgul" and the later English pronunciation of "Ogle (long O - gle as in tingle)" are the same. Current German pronouncation of Ogle is "O-glay". To get the same sound in present day German Ogle would be spelled "Ogel".
2) The Family owned large tracts of land in Northumberland prior to 1066 (the Norman Invasion).
Ogle Family DNA Project
Background
Ours is a story of two projects. One was founded by Ed Ogle in 2003, called the Oghgul DNA Project, the other, the Ogle Family DNA Project, was founded in 2004. As the two had overlapping areas of interest. Both Jim and Ed remain active in their respective projects. In 2009, the Ogle/Ogles Family Association, Inc. board voted to officially sponsor the activities of the Ogle Family DNA Project. Our project has two on-going tasks: Ogle/Ogles Y-chromosome testing; the Ogle Family Daughters Project.
Ogle/Ogles Y-chromosome testing
Most prevalent in the area of testing, the intent of the task is to collect samples from as many men of the name Ogle or Ogles as possible, including information on their proven lines of descent. Through testing of their Y-chromosomes, and taking the rates of mutation into account, we hope to get a better picture of the relationships among different branches, and provide clues how one ancestor may be linked to other known individuals in the family. It is the O/OFA Board’s sincere hope that, with enough information from the various lines around the world, additional clues may be determined on the parentage of John Ogle of Delaware (c. 1648-c. 1684), progenitor of most Ogle/Ogle descendants in the United States. For further information, contact the Ogle Family DNA Administrator, Jim Gilbert.
Ogle Family Daughters Project
The Ogle Family Daughters Project is a short term task that seeks descendants from two Ogle women whose parentage have been puzzles: is Elizabeth Ogle (m. James Andrews, d. 1787) the daughter of CAPT Joseph Ogle (1747-1821) and his first wife, Prudence Drusilla Biggs, or of his brother Jacob Ogle and Jacob’s wife Mary Wilson/White? Is Drusilla Ogle the daughter of CAPT Joseph Ogle his child by his first wife Prudence Drusilla Biggs, or by his second wife, Jemima Meigs? By tracking down living descendants who can trace an unbroken line of females back to these two women (or to other, documented daughters for these unions), and gaining consent to test their mitochondrial DNA (i.e, DNA passed from mother to all her children, to only those grandchildren whose mothers were her daughters, and so on), we hope to answer these questions. Criteria for selection of candidates were provided in the Spring 2009 issue of Ogling for Ogles, available on this website.