Referenced in the family
Iver Olsen
b. 1806
Life
Records & Research
Iver Olsen (b. 12 January 1806) — audit of a 'nothing-found' dossier. The core conclusion is sound: no record confirms THIS individual on 2+ independent anchors. The one substantive correction is that the prior draft's pivotal WikiTree lead ('Ole (Iversen) Rud 1781-1861', allegedly matching the father's years) does not exist in the WikiTree IVERSEN index on fetch; the real near-match is 'Iver (Iversen) Løken' (1779-1861), which is a wrong-person match for the father (Iver vs. Ole, 1779 vs. 1781) and is correctly rejected. No findings to confirm or downgrade; status remains nothing-found.
No additional public records have been confirmed yet — only what the family report records.
Open questions (5)
- AUDIT CORRECTION: The prior draft's claim of a WikiTree profile 'Ole (Iversen) Rud (b. 1781 Flakstad, Nes, Akershus; d. 1861)' matching the father's birth and death years could NOT be reproduced. A direct fetch of the WikiTree IVERSEN genealogy index (https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/IVERSEN) contains no such 'Ole (Iversen) Rud 1781-1861' entry. The closest Nes/Akershus entry is 'Iver (Iversen) Løken' (1779 Søndre Løken, Nes, Akershus - 1861 Søndre Løken, Nes, Akershus). That profile is a wrong-person match for the father Ole Iversen: different given name (Iver, not Ole) and different birth year (1779, not 1781). REJECTED. Future researchers should not chase the phantom 'Ole Rud 1781-1861' lead.
- No birth/baptism place is recorded for Iver Olsen in the report; without a parish/farm location, disambiguating among the many 'Iver Olsen b. 1806' entries in Norwegian records is not possible from web search alone. The exact baptism record should be sought in Digitalarkivet (Norwegian National Archives) using the parents' names Ole Iversen and Lisbet Olsdatter; Nes, Akershus parish records are a reasonable starting point given the family-name cluster, but no record has confirmed it.
- The surname in this archive reportedly drifts Olsen/Olsdatter and possibly Paulsen/Paulson via patronymics; no emigration or American record (e.g., a 'Paulson' descendant line) tying back to this Iver Olsen b. 1806 was found.
- A FamilySearch profile 'Even Olsen Bjerke (1806)' appeared (Even is sometimes interchanged with Iver); not pursued/confirmed as it lacked matching parent anchors. Could be checked if a Bjerke/Akershus connection is suspected.
- The PDF 'The Family from Rud' by Robert A. Bjerke (rbjerke.net) was retrieved and full-text searched; it concerns a different Rud/Biri-Vardal-Aurdal family and contains no Ole Iversen (1781-1861), Lisbet Olsdatter (1785), or Iver born 1806 — ruled out.
Sources consulted (5)
- THE FAMILY FROM RUD by Robert A. Bjerke (2014) — full text searched, unrelated family · genealogy-pdf
- WikiTree IVERSEN Genealogy index (audit fetch: NO 'Ole (Iversen) Rud 1781-1861'; nearest is 'Iver (Iversen) Løken' 1779-1861, a non-match for the father) · search
- FamilySearch search results for Iver Olsen / Ole Iversen (no multi-anchor match) · search
- Geni search results for Lisbet/Lisbeth Olsdatter & Ole Iversen (no match) · search
- MyHeritage Elisbeth Olsdatter name index (no match) · search
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