Sharon Olson
Honor Code SignatorySigned 22 Jul 2021 | 2,395 contributions | 166 thank-yous | 481 connections
Signed 22 Jul 2021 | 2,395 contributions | 166 thank-yous | 481 connections
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My family tree is at <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/52760031/family?cfpid=13404488169>.
Interested in family of William Sandford of Barbados/New Jersey; Jan Winans; Cornelis Melyn; Van Nes of Vianen; Burchgraef; Simonson (New Jersey); Santford (New York); Cunditt/Condit/Condict; Rafter of Kilkenny.
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anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
My family tree is at <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/52760031/family?cfpid=13404488169>.
Interested in family of William Sandford of Barbados/New Jersey; Jan Winans; Cornelis Melyn; Van Nes of Vianen; Burchgraef; Simonson (New Jersey); Santford (New York); Cunditt/Condit/Condict; Rafter of Kilkenny.
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Sharon L. Olson
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Obert Belford Olson
and Miriam Anita Simonson
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Sharon Olson is a Stanford graduate, with an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She worked as a librarian from 1978 to 2007 at the Palo Alto City Library. Her publications include a chapbook Clouds Brushed in Later, which won the Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook Award, and two full-length books of poetry, The Long Night of Flying (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006) and Will There Be Music? (Cherry Grove Collections, 2019). Her poems have appeared in many journals including Off the Coast, String Poet, Arroyo Literary Review, The Curator, Adanna, Heron Tree, New Verse News and Cider Press Review. She has published numerous articles about the Sandford family of New Jersey in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. Since 2008 she and her husband have lived on the East Coast, currently in Annapolis, Maryland.
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- First-hand information. Entered by Sharon Olson at registration.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Sharon or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sharon:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Sharon or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sharon:
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Sharon Olson:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A318095 [compare]
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A318095 [compare], FTDNA kit #427556
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Sharon:
- Meet our Members: Sharon Olson Jul 4, 2022.
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I compared my GEDmatch Kit Number T663704 with yours. We match on several chromosomes. I believe we are definitely related.
According to WikiTree, you and I are 7th cousins. I now think we are also related through our Swedish ancestors, possibly Nilsson, Svensson or Olsson. What do you think?
Perhaps you can help me find our closest mutual ancestor.
Take care,
Enrique
edited by Enrique Treat (Gleason Gleeson) Gleason Esq.
I think I found our mutual ancestor. I didn't think of trying the Swedish ancestors as there are so many patronymics, it would be hard to figure out any connections. But your name "Treat" told me I should follow that line, as I am related by marriage to the family of Robert Treat that emigrated from Connecticut to Newark, New Jersey in 1666. By the way, it's curious your father was named Trent, not Treat, but then you resumed the Treat tradition, there must be a story there!
So here is what I did. I followed your father up to Frederick Treat Gleason, then switched to the mother Emma Treat, her father Samuel B. Treat, then I was intrigued by Mary J. Gardner Treat, as I have Gardners in my family, and bingo, her mother was Levyntje Francisco, who was the daughter of Johannis T. Francisco, Jr., son of John A. Francisco, son of Johannis Francisco and Aeltje Doremus, and Aeltje Doremus is the daughter of Thomas Doremus and Anneken Abramse Ackerman. The latter couple are my direct ancestors, my 6th great grandparents. So you descend from their daughter Aeltje, and I descend from their son John. I guess that's how we end up being 7th cousins!
If it hadn’t been for my middle name “Treat”, I would have never linked to my Treat line and I would have never joined WikiTree.
And if I hadn’t asked my father why I had been given the middle name Treat, I would have probably not acquired an interest in genealogy and DNA. In short, I probably would have never met you if you hadn’t added your GEDmatch Kit Number to WikiTree!
In short, my father told me that Treat was an actual important family surname but never explained anything to me about the Treats (my father was not a genealogist). He did tell me that his middle name was also “Treat” but when he joined the Army Air Core, they erroneously recorded him as being a “Trent” instead of a “Treat”. From then on he just started using the initial “T” as his middle name. He, however, made sure that my Middle name “Treat” was spelled correctly in my birth certificate.
After my parents passed away, I started researching my family history and had my DNA tested.
Yes, I agree that we’re definitely related through Thomas Doremus and Anneken Abramse Ackerman.
I, however, think that because of our many chromosomal segments from differing actual chromosomes (not just one chromosome) we are also connected trough our Swedish ancestors, especially since they seem to all (or most of them) be from the same general area, Ostra, Ostergotland, Sweden.
Wow! I read your bio on your profile — you have an impressive background and you were living so close to me when you were living in Palo Alto! It would have been great to have met you sooner and in person while you were in the Bay Area!
Take care and I am so glad I decided to compare our GEDmatch Kit Numbers and that you responded!
Enrique
I love making connections like this! I have a couple of questions.
First, just where are you from in the Bay Area? I think your residence must not be revealed on what I see in Wikitree.
Second, where are your Swedish people, can you tell me where they start in your tree?
And third, I may have found another common link. I have a brick wall. Wouldn't it be fun if we could solve him (of course I have others!). My great great grandfather was from Kilkenny, Ireland. His name was Patrick Henry Rafter. Now if you have a rainy day and want to spend some time reading my research about him (about 20+ pages!) you can go to my blog at olsonsumner.wordpress.com or to this page exactly: https://olsonsumner.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/identification-of-patrick-henry-rafter.pdf
I found in your tree you have people about the same time period in Kilkenny and Tipperary! And one of your ancestors is named Mary Dunphy. A lawyer named Mr. Dunphy was the person hired by Patrick's sisters to find him (he had left the family and went away secretly to America). I think your research stops with that Mary Dunphy's generation. But I wonder if she might open up something for me (for both of us...of course). So that was pretty exciting this morning!
Sharon
My Swedes begin with my paternal grandmother, Gwendolyn Carsson. She was born in Salt Lake City Utah but her parents were from Sweden and Norway (they were apparently brought to America by the Mormons).
My father’s GLEESON ancestors are from the Silvermines area in Tipperary (according to GLEASON/GLEASON Y-DNA experts from FTDNA, Silvermines, Tipperary is the birth place of the first GLEESONs back over a thousand years)!
I promise to review the links you sent me within a few days.
I live in San José and my hospital and doctors are at Stanford.
Take care!
edited by Ellen Gustafson
Re this Samuel's mother, I just added two deeds that seem to confirm this.
I have been working on the various Samuel Wards in this family for days...this one I think is sorted out, I hope.
"The Early Sandford Family in New Jersey, Revisited, Part 4: William Sandford's Immediate Family, The Three Wives of William Sandford Jr." by Sharon Olson and Chris Schopfer, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Volume 92 (2017): pages 106-108.
I intend to do much more work to clean up this family as there are also several duplicate entries because of individuals being entered twice, under Sanford, and under Sandford. They should all be under the spelling Sandford in this family except for members much later in the nineteenth century who started to use Sanford. I have initiated merges for some of these individuals as well. Hope this is helpful, Sharon Olson
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Rather than trying to add my large tree (which may have some mistakes here and there) I think it's better to zero in on individual records, and see if I can help add to them. For example if in my own family I see that my family tree on Wikitree goes down to one descendant listed, but my own ancestor is a sibling of that descendant, and not listed, what is the best way to signal or add that information? That would be my first question to ask. Thanks very much. Sharon Olson
Janet is not on duty now but I can help.
If you see issues with any profile you can post a comment on the profile. The profile manager will be notified of the comment. Check to see if there is a profile manager. That info is near the top of the profile under the basic info about the person. There is a link next to the profile managers name so that you can send your comments as a private message if you prefer (good for sensitive info). If there's no profile manager, you can still leave a comment. It will be seen by future researchers looking at the profile.
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The way you have done them is fine but here's a couple of help pages with info on sources: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Links_to_Ancestry
The first one has info on how to do inline citations and some sample citations for different types of sources. The second one explains how to create a citation for ancestry sources. It is preferable to use sources from free sites like FamilySearch over those behind a paywall like Ancestry. But wherever you get the information, the citation needs to have enough info that another researcher could find the info easily.
The help index can be found in the Find drop down menu.
Have a look at these pages and let me know if you have any questions.
Peggy
This is optional but is helpful.
I see you have used a couple of inline citations for your dad's profile. Good job!
Wow sounds like you have done a lot of work, impressive. I would agree about not adding a gedcom you are limited to 5,00 profile and it will take a long time to cross-reference these and add them. I use the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_X app and import profile one at a time, then build them up adding more sources and data.
As you are a guest the next thing to do is to Upgrade your account, it is free to do this, if you want to communicate with cousins or others about genealogy (whether or not you want to add profiles on our single family tree), you can upgrade at no cost to the Family Member level at any time by adding your genealogy communication preferences.
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All the best Janet