Project Surnames
Gomper, Gumber, Gumper, Jumper, Jumpertz, Juniper, Schamber, Schombert, Schombertd, Schumbert, Schumpert, Tschamper[t], Tschamperli, Tschumber, Tschumper
Current balance:
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Group General Fund
Project Background
Welcome to the Jumper Family DNA Project. The Group Project Administrator (GPA), Sherman E. Jumper, of Eads, Tennessee established this project on 2 October 2006. He volunteered to serve indefinitely as the GPA for this project or until a new administrator is named to replace him. In addition to serving as the group administrator of this Jumper DNA Family Project, he is charged with writing narrative text and updates on this Jumper Family public web site:
Researching the Southern Jumper Family History and the main root of this obscure surname group for more than 20 years, the compiler has concluded the Southern Jumper Families descent stems from Johannes Conrad Schombert/Schumbert/Schumpert, alias John Conrad Jumper. In the late spring of 1756, this German native emigrated from Holland to South Carolina aboard the vessel Friendship, piloted by Captain Sam Ball out of London. Arriving in CharlesTowne [Charleston], South Carolina on 21 June 1756, this gateway ancestor on 7 July 1756 petitioned the Council Journal for a land grant and on 10 August he was awarded 200 acres …for the petitioner, wife and child... The writer has been re-constructing literally thousands of families who were either his ancestors or descendants. The immigrant's German surname was found anglicized to J-U-M-P-E-R in British Colonial Records about 1760, but Schumbert did not adopt the anglicized surname until about 1769.
While the Southern Jumper line remains the primary focus of the writer, he is also knowledgeable of the family history of many other Jumper surname branches, including the New England Jumpers’ of English descent. Edward Jumper, the progenitor of the New England Jumpers’ settled in Maine in 1702. Many of his earliest descendants had removed to Massachusetts, New York, and beyond by 1800. Today small clusters of the New England Jumper families are found in scattered locations across the nation, including the midwest, the upper plains, and the far west including numerous clusters in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Several discrete clusters of Jumpers situated in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois are mostly remnants of the Pennsylvania Jumpers, who are the descendants of German immigrants Johan Jacob Schumber/Schumpert, and Johannes Conrad Schumpert.
This site was established to serve all Jumper families and other German surname variants. If you are someone who is interested in learning the truth about your Jumper lineage, then this is your best hope for linking your Jumper surname to the main stem. But, first you should know that in order to help you, we need for you to join our Jumper Family DNA group by purchasing a DNA Test Kit. Meanwhile, we continue to build a Jumper Family DNA database to prove or disprove old genealogical issues regarding race, ethnicity, and origins.