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  George M. Troop

   THE OVERSTREET DNA PROJECT

                 Finding Family Connections through Y-DNA

                           OVERSTREET:

   An English Place Name meaning "Dweller at a Roman Road near a River Bank".... "The new Dictionary of American Family Names," by Eldon Smith

The earliest documented OVERSTREET in the New World was JOHN OVERSTREET, who was in Virginia before 1650. OVERSTREET Families have lived in Virginia from that time to the present. HENRY OVERSTREET was in North Carolina by 1663, and an OVERSTREET Family was mentioned by General George Ogelthorpe in Georgia Colony in 1735.  In 1739 HENRY OVERSTREET was  listed in a census of "Old Fort,"  a settlement of fur traders that later became Augusta, Georgia.

  OVERSTREET Families were in Colonial South Carolina in the 1750's. They followed the paths of migration to Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, and Illinois. As the new nation grew and expanded, OVERSTREET Families went with the tide of migration and became respected contributors to their communities and to their world. The stories of the OVERSTREET Families parallels the history of the American Nation.

    Our Project so far has found seven distinct  OVERSTREET Families, including two subsets of one Virginia group. It appears that overall our families had only one thing in common: at one time or another, they were all "dwellers by a Roman Road near a River Bank."  Even though we are from different ancestries, we still have one  very important thing in common. We all have a passion to discover who our grandfathers were, to learn their stories, and to learn how we are connected to one another.  We  are all OVERSTREET COUSINS.  We hope you enjoy our stories and that you will visit us again.  Jane Overstreet Stein, Group Administrator

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