Selover/Slover

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The primary goal of this site is to try to identify ancestry of people who share DNA with persons descended from a Selover, Slover, Seloover, Sealover or other variations. A secondary goal is to explore the deep ancestry of this line. Both goals require testing Y-DNA from documented direct male descendants of the 1683 immigrant Isaac Seloover as well as from those whose paper trails are faint. Thank you for testing! "The Selovers were French Huguenots who sought refuge in the Netherlands. The name seems to have been spelled Seloivre in the French form . . . the spelling became Seloover and Sloover . . . and it became Selover and Slover. Some branches . . . used Sellover [or] accented the first syllable by spelling it Sealover."* According to Prof. Frans Debrabandere, an expert on family names in Belgium and northern France, the surname “de Sloover” “is first mentioned around 1400, in the region near Gent: “…the name ‘de Slover’ is an ‘occupation’-name, someone (a smith) who makes a ‘slove’, which is an iron ring, that was put over, for instance, a piece of wood, to keep that together.” ** *Hadler, Mabel Jacques, "Selover-Slover Family, Second Edition, 1681-1968," self-published. ** Debrabandere, Frans. “Woordenboek van de familienamen in Belgie & Noord-Frankrijk” (Dictionary of familynames in Belgium and the North of France), 2 volumes, 1993. There is also a 2003 edition, but this information comes from the 1993 edition.
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