Born 1920s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Sheridan Potter
and Pearle Marie (Jackson) Potter
Sister of
Evelyn Lavina (Potter) Anthens, William Sheridan Potter Jr., Eunice Marie (Potter) Longanecker, Maurice Potter, Bernice Pearl (Potter) Davis, Vivian (Potter) Engholm, Norman Potter, Jeanette (Potter) Freeman, Richard Potter, Eleanor (Potter) Davison and [private sister (1930s - unknown)]
[children unknown]
Died 2020s.
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Biography
Genevieve was the sixth of 12 children in the family of Sheridan and Pearl Jackson Potter.[1] She grew up in Brainerd, Minnesota, where her father worked for the railroad.[2] She completed two years of high school and had just started work at the time of the 1940 census.[3]
She married Eugene Olson in Brainerd when she was 18.[4] They are the parents of six children, born between 1943 and 1963. Their son Bill died in 2013.[5]
Genevieve and Eugene were living in Brainerd in 1976.[6]
Eugene died in 1989.[7] Genevieve died at age 99 and is buried with her husband in Baxter Cemetery, Baxter, Minnesota.[8]
Sources
- ↑ MNHS Birth Certificates Index
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X3Z9-QCX : accessed 11 December 2014), Genevive G Potter in household of William F Potter, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0009, sheet 2A, family 27, line 14, film number 1084, NARA microfilm publication T626, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); FHL microfilm 2,340,819.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-27786-13559-88?cc=2000219 : accessed 11 December 2014), Minnesota > Crow Wing > Brainerd City, Brainerd, Ward 4 > 18-9A Brainerd City Ward 4 bounded by (N) Northern Pacific Railway; (E) city limits; (S) city limits; (W) 14th extended, 14th, 14th extended > image 13 of 32; citing NARA digital publication of T627, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- ↑ Minnesota Official Marriage System.
- ↑ William "Bill" C. Olson Obituary
- ↑ Schwatka-Baldwin-Potter
- ↑ William "Bill" C. Olson Obituary
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231923980/genevieve-gladys-olson: accessed 15 December 2022), memorial page for Genevieve Gladys Potter Olson (15 Dec 1922–9 Sep 2021), Find a Grave Memorial ID 231923980, citing Baxter Cemetery, Baxter, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, USA.)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Genevieve by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Genevieve:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Genevieve by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Genevieve:
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~6.25%
Bruce Lundeby
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A458124 [compare], Ancestry member BruceLundeby
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Stacey Wadsworth :
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~0.78%
Mary Pat (Nolan) Nolan-Grigsby :
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~0.78%
Meg McGowan :
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