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Biography
Israel Olmsted served with 1776 Project Needs Additional Sources during the American Revolution.
Israel Olmsted is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A086287.
Birth year 1715/16 due to calendar shift.
Birth 24 MAR 1716 Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts[1]
Apparently some records (created on Family Search) provide a middle name of John -- We believe that is a mistake and confused with another family member. WWS
Research Notes
The source WFT (World Family Tree) was a collection of user submitted trees as Family Tree Maker (FTM) files in the early 1990s when Broderbund owned FTM. Through a series of ownership, FTM eventually became the property of ancestry.com who dropped support of the program in 2016. Those trees may now reside behind the ancestry "pay wall." It is unknown if the tree #4233 cited had any sources. I do have a copy of the CD and will check it at sometime in the future. WWS
Sources
↑ Footnote: Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #4233, Date of Import: 24 May 1997
↑ Footnote: Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #4233, Date of Import: 24 May 1997
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 18, 2016), "Record of Israel Olmstead", Ancestor # A086287.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Israel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
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Requesting permission to alter the 1776 Sticker so that it falls into a different error list for maintenance. This would be a big help to the volunteers working the maintenance category so we would not handle the profile over and over. If you want to make the change yourself, the format should be:
Israel Olmsted served with 1776 Project Needs Additional Sources during the American Revolution.
Got it fixed now. Thank you!
edited by Betty (Skelton) Norman