NATHANIEL HOLT'S father? / need proof
Hi All!
I am one of the descendants of Nathaniel Holt and Abby Clanton.As so many others, I have been working off and on for years trying to determine who the parents were for Nathaniel.
On some of the genealogy sites, you will find where some have entered Nathaniel's father as Elias, Eliphus, Charles, and so on.One of them might have been his father.I have considered all of the names and have researched them to the best of my ability.I CANNOT FIND ANY PROOF for any of them being his father.
If our goal is to establish our "true blood line", we can't accept people's "best guesses" or "like possibilities" without positive proof.Until one of us can come up with solid proof, I don't see how any of us can yet make the claim of knowing positively who Nathaniel's father was.
Do any of you have proof of who Nathaniel's father was?If so, please share your sources with the rest of his descendants.It would be greatly appreciated!!
Nathaniel's wife, Abby Clanton, was a descendant of Randolph Holt.A lot of us used to seriously consider the notion that Nathaniel and Abby's Holt lines were BOTH from Randolph.However, two Holt Y-DNA donors, who claim that Randolph Holt was their earliest known Holt ancestor, did not match the Y-DNA of our Nathaniel.
If the two donors were actually descendants of Randolph Holt's, then Nathaniel Holt and his wife, Abigail Clanton, did not come from the same Holt ancestors....but that all depends upon those two donors actually having the same Y-DNA as Randolph did.
If there are any other living, qualified, Holt men who are descendants from one of the lines of the Holt men who people are claiming were Nathaniel Holt's father, have them do the Y-DNA test and see if there's a match. That should at least tell if they were kin to Nathaniel but not tell if they were actually his father or not.
It's on the Y-DNA project that Eliphus was Nathaniel's father.Whoever supplied that information to the project really needs to show the proof if they're making that claim.
Please let us know!
Karen