GRAVES FAMILY BULLETIN
A
Free, Occasional, Online Summary of Items of Interest to Descendants of all
Families of Graves, Greaves, Grieves, Grave, and other spelling variations
Worldwide
Vol.
10, No. 7, June 30, 2008
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© 2008 by the Graves Family Association and Kenneth V. Graves. All rights reserved.
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CONTENTS:
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General Comments
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Graves Family Luncheon in Dallas, TX July 19
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Changes to the GFA Website
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Death of Archie Affleck-Graves, Tour Guide
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Familypedia, The Genealogy Wiki
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To Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
I
was hoping to have some additional news to report by this time, but the wheels
of progress move slowly. We need more
of you to compile and submit genealogies, research connections between existing
genealogies and find the earlier ancestry of existing genealogies, and more of
you to find Graves descendants to take part in our DNA study. We still have many genealogies that have not
had male Graves/Greaves descendants who have been DNA tested.
You
may find some of the additions to the website of interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me
know.
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GRAVES
FAMILY LUNCHEON IN DALLAS, TX, JULY 19
My
wife Sarah and I will be in Dallas, TX and vicinity for several days
this July. We are tentatively planning
a luncheon at a restaurant in Dallas on Saturday, July 19. If you are interested in meeting with us
then, please let me know. I will be
happy to discuss your part of the Graves family, our DNA study, or anything
else of interest to you. If you have a
suggestion for a good place to hold the meeting, let me know that also.
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CHANGES
TO THE GFA WEBSITE
The
only recent addition to this page is Clinton Greaves, Buffalo soldier and
recipient of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor. However, it would be a tremendous help if you would contact one
or more of the living people already on the page (especially those whose
ancestry we don’t know) (or others not on the page who are famous), find out
their ancestry, and try to get them interested in the Graves Family
Association.
Addition of Page for Products and Services from Graves/Greaves Family Members
This is accessible from the Products tab of the GFA website. This page is for businesses owned and services provided by Graves/Greaves/Grieve family members. There are presently categories for Entertainment, Lodging & Resorts, and Travel & Tours. Anyone is welcome to suggest or submit businesses to be included here. When the ancestry of family members is not identified, please tell us the ancestry if you know. As we add more businesses, we may identify those that are owned by members of the Graves Family Association, and may increase content and promotion for some.
Addition of Page for Houses and Places containing the Graves/Greaves/Grieve name
This
is accessible from the History/News tab of the GFA website. Among the places noted are Gravesend, Kent,
England; Graves County, Kentucky; Graves Ledges and Graves Light in Boston
Harbor; and a number of places in the U.S. named Graveston, Gravestown, and
Gravesville. Let me know if you know of
others in the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, and elsewhere, and if you can
add more information about the ones already on the page.
Addition of African American
Page and Native American Page
These
are both accessible from the Research tab of the GFA website. All suggestions to improve the pages will be
appreciated.
This
is accessible from the History/News tab of the GFA website. Items continue to be added to this, gleaned
mostly from automatic Google searches.
Is this page of interest to any of you?
Do you have any ideas about better ways to find articles about family
members?
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DEATH
OF ARCHIE AFFLECK-GRAVES, TOUR GUIDE
As
I was recently creating the start of a webpage for products and services of
Graves/Greaves family members, I remembered that I promised Archie
Affleck-Graves that I would put his tour guide service on the GFA website when
the page was created. When I tried to
access his website and couldn’t, and then found from a search that he had died,
I was shocked. Archie was a friend and
a person very interested in his Graves ancestry. He and I had communicated often. Archie was descended from Thomas Graves of Dublin, Ireland
(genealogy 785), and participated in our DNA study. His picture is on the Current News page in the History/News section
of the website.
Archibald
(“Archie”) Affleck-Graves was a Blue Badge tour guide who lived in London,
England. He was planning to be our
driver and tour guide for the Graves Family Association tour of England in May
2006. He had a change of plans at the
last minute and was not able to do that, although he did provide very helpful
reservations and some transportation for that tour. We had the pleasure of
meeting him in London at the end of the tour.
The
only notice of his death that I could find was on the website of the
Astrological Lodge of London. Archie
was a regular at their Monday meetings.
He died on 2 November 2007. He had been battling motor neurone (or
neuron) disease." (This is a group of progressive neurological disorders
that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity
such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing. One form of this is ALS
or Lou Gehrig's Disease.)
From
the Astrological Lodge website: "Archie will be much missed by the
committee. I found him a constant source of support and honest feedback. I know
other members of the committee feel the same.”
A comment entered on his website after his death (no longer accessible): “Archie will be sorely missed by his colleagues, not just for his unending pursuit in promoting the Blue Badge guiding profession, but for his gentle humour, huge kindness and genial company."
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FAMILYPEDIA, THE GENEALOGY WIKI
I have just become aware of a new website which may be of interest to
some of you. It is Familypedia, a
genealogy wiki, at http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page.
In their words: “This is a place where you
can create articles about your ancestors, and easily link them to other
articles about where and when they lived. You can work wholly within this wiki,
or you can link your articles to sites on the world wide web. And because this
is a wiki format, you can work collaboratively with others to create a network
of articles about your ancestors and about those they lived and worked
with---or simply about people you find interesting. As this site grows it is
our hope that we will be able to gradually link our ancestors into a network
that goes far beyond the simple nuts and bolts of who lived where and when, and
a list of begats.
The
focus of this site is on capturing the details of the lives of our ancestors,
both those historically significant people and the everyday people usually not
listed in encyclopaedias, histories, or even "people's histories".
Along the way, it is our hope that the site will also provide information about
the historical and social context that our ancestors found themselves within.
Finally, this site aspires to be truly global, with active contributors and
information from multiple cultures and all four Hemispheres.”
Help with getting started and using the wiki site, and how to
communicate with others is provided on the site. Please let me know if you think this could be helpful to you
and/or the Graves Family Association.
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ABOUT THIS BULLETIN:
This
bulletin is written and edited by Kenneth V. Graves,
ken.graves@gravesfa.org. Ken Graves was
also editor of the Graves Family Newsletter (no longer published). This bulletin will contain announcements and
news of special interest to Graves descendants with Internet access. It will not contain queries, genealogies,
photos, and the kind of in-depth articles that used to appear in the Graves
Family Newsletter.
TO
SUBMIT MATERIAL TO THIS BULLETIN:
Send
any material you would like to have included in this bulletin to
ken.graves@gravesfa.org. The editor
reserves the right to accept, edit or reject any material submitted.
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you do not already belong to the GFA, you can join by sending $20 per year to
Graves Family Association, 20 Binney Circle, Wrentham, MA 02093 (more details
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Benefits include access to the “members only” section of the website,
membership directory, and help with learning more about your Graves/Greaves
family. The purpose of the GFA is to
bring together as many descendants as possible to work toward learning more
about the Graves/Greaves families, to help other descendants, and to instill
pride in our ancestry.
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