I have done extensive research online about this but have only a vauge idea. My father's family name was Gogol but I do not know where his father originally came from - we know it was somewhere in the USSR, which now could be any number of different countries.
The only famous Gogol was Nikolai Gogol, but he never had children so I can't be directly related to him. Nikolai Gogol was born in what is now the Ukraine. So maybe it's Ukrainian?
I've also seen evidence it might be related to the Kossack tribes (who settled across Russia, the Ukraine and other soviet countries). So maybe it's Kossack?
Other sources lead me to the possibility of Russia as well.
However I have not yet found anything definite to say "Gogol originated here". So there's 25% of my ethnic background that is a vauge mystery to me.
(FYI I'm also 50% Polish and 25% German).
2006-08-04
20:33:40
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Kleineganz
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