Legge Name Study

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surname/tag: Legge

Legge One Name Study

The mission of the project is to add and improve profiles of all Legges. Project members take primary responsibility for relevant profiles or family groups and work on merging duplicates, cleaning up profiles, adding sources, removing incorrect information and offering research assistance as needed.

Contents 1 Adding Project Template 2 Meaning of Last Name 'Legge' 2.1 Derivations 3 Legge Demographics 3.1 Early Legge's by Location (to 1830) 3.1.1 North America 3.1.1.1 Nova Scotia 4 Legge DNA 4.1 Legge DNA Projects 4.1.1 Haplogroups 5 Discussion Boards 6 Famous Legge's 7 Legge's on WikiTree 8 Sources

Adding Project Template

If you would like, you may add a project template to each profile included in your study. This will help raise awareness of your study & may increase collaboration. To add a Legge Name Study Location, change the second category to match the location of the birth of your Legge Proflie. If you do not want a location category remove the second category line. The code is:
{{Project Box
| category = Legge_Name_Study
| image = Photos_Experiments.gif
| image-caption = Legge Name Study
| description = This profile is part of the Legge One Name Study
| project = One Name Studies}}

Meaning of Last Name 'Legge'

Derivations

Legge Demographics

Early Legge's by Location (to 1830)

North America

Nova Scotia

Underlined names in table are linked to WikiTree profile for the individual.

First Name	Last Name	Town of event	County of event	Event	Year	# Below
George Michael	Legge		Lunnenburg	Census	1861	See Profile

Numbered list with more information for entries in the table above.

Legge DNA

Since DNA can be traced along a patrilineal (father to father to father) line it can be interesting for someone studying the genealogy of a surname, theoretically at least. The Y chromosome conveniently follows our Western Europe convention on last names.

Legge DNA Projects

Although there are now many companies offering DNA testing for genealogical purposes, Family Tree DNA is the largest. They have groups organized around surnames including this one:

Haplogroups

Haplogroup

MDA FName

MDA LName

Ancestor Location

Origins

Discussion Boards

Famous Legge's

Legge's on WikiTree

Here is the complete Legge Index.

When you add yourself or a Legge relative to WikiTree your addition(s) will automatically be included on the index the following day.

Sources