Oliver Lines of Descent from Oliver Men with No Current Match

This web page was first mounted on December 1, 2009 by Sheila Schmutz. sheila.schmutz@usask.ca and updated on April 3, 2011. This is a private webpage that is connected to the Oliver Y DNA Project of Family Tree DNA. Please address corrections and additions to her. If you wish to correspond with other participants whose lines are shown, she will forward your message to them.

This webpage focuses on the men who have submitted genealogy data or posted it via their FTDNA personal page. Oliver is a very common name and was used and/or adopted several times, in several countries. Therefore it is not surprising that many men do not yet have a match. We hope that by presenting their genealogy here, others will be encouraged to participate and have their Y DNA tested, especially if they have ancestors coming from some the places shown around the same time period.

The detailed data on their markers appears on the Oliver Y DNA project homepage under Y-DNA results.

Lines of descent of some of the Oliver men whose ancestor lived in the Southern United States are shown below.

Lines of descent of some of other Oliver men who do not yet match another Oliver are shown below. Note that 175738 matches some Oliphant men at 34 or 35 of 37 markers. That suggests they may share a common ancestor with 99% confidence about 20 generations back.

Note that the names of the participants and their Fathers are not shown to protect the privacy of the individuals. If individuals do not wish their line to be shown at all, please contact me and I will respect your wishes.

Useful References

Links to Sites with Information about Specific Ancestors Shown on this page

HeritageQuest Online Revolutionary War Penison Application Series: M805 Roll: 622 Image: 256 File: S31282 Page: 1 of 11 Richard Oliver, Resident of Clarke Co, KY

• p.3 Isaac Oliver Senior appeared in open Court 28th day of October 1833….that Richard Oliver is his brother….and Isaac is now about 68 yrs of age and resides in Clarke Co KY…and that during the Revolutionary War lived in Rowan Co of NC about 50 miles distant from Richard Oliver. Richard served tour as a substitute for one Henry Goulman who has since died.
• p. 4 John Conkwright is 49. Richard Oliver married his sister.
• p. 5 Charles Goulman is 50. His father Henry Goulman died 27 years ago. His father and his family have heard that Richard Oliver served two tours as a militia man.
• p. 6-10 Richard Oliver appeared on 24 Dec 1832. Resident of Clarke Co, KY. He said he was born in Halifax Co, VA 20 Dec 1752 – record in his father’s Common Prayer Book. He was drafted in Oct 1779 while living in Mecklenburg Co, NC for a tour of ___ months in the militia. Served 3 months and received a written discharge. He then moved to Iredell Co, NC and in March 1781 he was drafted for a second 3 months and then a third 3 months. Discharged in February 1782 and was then again living in Iredell Co. In 1782 he moved to Mecklenburg Co and after 2-3 years moved to Clarke Co, KY.
• p.11 is typed summary This typed summary says that Charles Goulman is married to a daughter of Richard Oliver, but her name isn’t given.

Links to Other Related Sites

• Georgia Olivers for a listing of all Olivers in pre-1830 Georgia
• Oliver Y DNA project at FTDNA This is the site to view the actual haplotype data and sign up to participate if you are not already tested and would like to be.
• Y Search This website althoughs men who have been tested to look for matches, even if they were tested with a company other than FTDNA
• The Genographic Project
Another Y DNA project co-hosted by National Geographic that some Oliver men participate in, if they know their ancestor's country of origin (you can participate in more than one with the same DNA sample)
• Wikipedia Y DNA haplogroup Explanation
• RootsWeb Genealogy Repository
A searchable database that allows free access to genealogies and other valuable information for genealogical research

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