Osiyo [Greetings] Madam ListOwner & Folks, My families, OLIVER and McMAHAN/McMAHON, were in the USA prior to the American Revolutionary War. The "Family" has always maintained that we were Ulster-Irish [Scots-Irish, as some say]. It has been established that both surnames were in the Old 96th District, South Carolina prior to 1800 and in Christian County, Kentucky before 1810. Recently, through an OLIVER surname YDNA project two of us matched 35 of 37 markers. That family is of Lislane, Parish of Balteagh, Liniavady, County Derry. Robert and Ellen Andrew(s) Oliver emigrated from Lislane to the United States of America in 1874, arriving in New York City on the Anchor Line's SS Victoria on June 11, 1874. Feeling that the Robert and Ellen OLIVER family has a common ancestor with my family sometime since the Plantation system was inaugarated in NI, I'm beginning to study the Derry area history of Northern Ireland and the Border area of Scotland. Since I do not know when the first of my OLIVER family arrived in North America, yet following their migration pattern in the United States, I'm presuming that they left Ireland between ca 1720 to 1770 and entered through Philidelphia, stopping in Lancaster County for awhile, then moving south through the Cumberland valley down through North and South Carolina before reaching Christian County, Kentucky. Part of my reasoning is because John McMAHAN's RW service was with the North Carolina Continental Army listing that he was from Lancaster County, PA. Since the OLIVERs and McMAHANs seemed to move together as well as intermarry, my first searches for my OLIVER family are following the migration pattern of the known McMAHANs. I've spent some time reading all of the archived messages for several of the Ulster boards. Unless there is a lurker on this list there does not seem to be much research on the surname OLIVER here, but there does seem to be much general knowledge of the history of the Reivers and Scots-Irish. Therefore, any advice and source of records that I can access from Northwestern Ohio would certainly be gratefully accepted and appreciated. Wado [thank you], Bill Oliver at the mouth of the Maumee River in Ohio, USA -=- Linda Merle wrote: >Hi folks, if you are receiving this email you are on the Scotch Irish list. If you are a new member (or old) let us know or remind us of your research interests. There may be cousins alurking or someone with a helpful suggestion. > >Meanwhile back in the homeland, our cousins are hard at work preserving our heritage and history. The following website looks nice. Not much there now, but sign up for the enewsletter: >http://www.hamiltonmontgomery1606.com/ > >