GRAVES FAMILY BULLETIN
Vol. 18, No. 4, June 18,
2016
A
Free, Occasional, Online Summary of Items of Interest to Descendants of all
Families of Graves, Greaves, Grieves, Grave, and other spelling variations
Worldwide
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CONTENTS
**
General Comments
**
FatherÕs Day DNA Sale by Family Tree DNA
**
Identity of Graves Family Whose Child Was Killed by Alligator
**
Updates to the GFA Website
**
Helpful Blog Articles About FTDNAÕs Family Finder
** Graves
Gathering in Bardstown, KY, This September
**
Latest Announcement from Ancestry About Family Tree Maker
** To Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other
Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
It
seems to be more of a struggle this year to issue these bulletins on a regular
basis – too many things happening in my life, and IÕm not getting any younger. Thanks very much to those of you who
supported my bicycle ride last Saturday to raise money for the AlzheimerÕs
Association; today I ran several track events in the Massachusetts Senior Games
(some of us have a strange idea of fun).
A
couple of the articles in this issue need to be sent now, especially the one
about the DNA sale. I hope you
find something helpful here. Enjoy
FatherÕs Day tomorrow and the first day of summer on Monday!
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FATHERÕS DAY
DNA SALE BY FAMILY TREE DNA
Family
Tree DNA is offering discounts on upgrade pricing during our Father's Day Sale.
Their announcement states: Starting at midnight tonight (June 16) and ending on
Monday, June 20th at 11:59pm CDT, sale pricing for the discounted upgrades will
be as follows:
Y12-Y25 |
$49 |
$40 |
Y12-Y37 |
$99 |
$79 |
Y25-Y37 |
$49 |
$40 |
Y37-Y67 |
$99 |
$79 |
Y37-Y111 |
$220 |
$188 |
Y67-Y111 |
$129 |
$109 |
HVR1-FMS |
$159 |
$139 |
HVR2
(mtDNA Plus)-FMS |
$139 |
$129 |
In
addition to the discounted upgrade pricing above, we also have discounts on these
select testing bundles:
Y37
+ Family Finder |
$268 |
$218 |
Y67
+ Family Finder |
$367 |
$288 |
Comprehensive
Genome (FF+Y67+FMS) |
$566 |
$449 |
Please
note that while invoiced orders (Bill me later option) can be placed during the
sale, we will only be able to honor the sale price for those orders if they
order are paid by the end of the sale.
Ancestry Autosomal Transfer
update:
As
you may know, Ancestry has changed to a new chip for their testing, and has
also recently changed the format of their autosomal raw data files. This new
format is currently incompatible with our database, preventing holders of these
new file types from transferring their autosomal data to us. We are working to
adjust and make those files compatible with our system as soon as possible, and
we have this placed at a high priority so that those Ancestry testers who have
tested under their new chip may transfer to our database.
Please
note that this issue only affects those who have recently tested with Ancestry-
people who have tested with Ancestry prior to the recent change in their
testing chip are still able to transfer.
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IDENTITY OF GRAVES FAMILY WHOSE CHILD WAS KILLED BY ALLIGATOR
In
a tragic event at the Grand Floridian Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando,
Florida, an alligator attacked and killed a 2-year-old boy on Tuesday, June
14. There have been many stories
about this, and you can see one of them here
and another from Fox News here. Ways to send donations or sympathy
messages are mentioned in both articles, and a donation page raised over $50,000
in 2 days, before being ended.
The
boy was Lane Graves and his parents are Matthew and Melissa Graves of Elkhorn
(part of Omaha), Nebraska. They
are descended from genealogy 166, John Graves of Concord, MA. The line of descent is: (1) John, (2)
Benjamin, (3) Benjamin, (4) Jedediah, (5) Jonah, (6) Increase, (7) Sterling,
(8) Amariah Barnum, (9) John Asbury, (10) Lloyd Ellsworth, (11) Robert James,
(12) James Allen, (13) Matthew James Graves.
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UPDATES TO THE
GFA WEBSITE
Updated
pages:
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charts.php, Numerical listing of genealogies & charts
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reunions.php, Past and future Graves/Greaves trips and gatherings
Updated
charts:
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chart270.pdf
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chart047-connections.pdf
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R-Y-SNP-Chart.pdf, SNP chart of the R Haplogroup
New
Genealogies:
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Gen. 554, Francis Marion Graves and Emily Eliza Gentry of AL & TX
Revised
genealogies:
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Gen. 74, Alexander Graves of NC & GA
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Gen. 78, James Graves and Sarah ------ of SC & GA
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Gen. 169, Capt. Thomas Graves of VA
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Gen. 270, John Graves/Greaves of Northamptonshire, England and VA
¥
Gen, 479, James Grieve and Catherine McCue of Downpatrick, Co., Down,
Ireland
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HELPFUL BLOG
ARTICLES ABOUT FTDNAÕS FAMILY FINDER
Roberta
Estes has written many interesting and helpful articles that I have
occasionally mentioned. In her DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
blog, there are 3 recent articles that may be helpful. Clicking here will take you
to the Family Finder category on her website. At that link, the first article is part of a new Concepts
series titled Managing Autosomal DNA Matches, and explains how to download
autosomal DNA data from Family Tree DNA in preparing to get the most value from
your test results. Future articles
will explain what to do with those results to get the most benefit from them.
The
next two articles explain the updates to Family Finder that were completed and
announced in May. Farther down,
you will find even more articles that may be of help.
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LATEST
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ANCESTRY ABOUT FAMILY TREE MAKER
On
March 2, Ancestry posted a blog article titled ÒFamily Tree Maker Is Updated
and Shipping Now.Ó You can read
the article here. In it they announce that a company
called Software MacKiev has officially begun shipping updated versions of
Family Tree Maker for both Windows and Mac. ÒWith this, you will have continued access to Ancestry
Hints, Ancestry searches, and are able to continue to save your tree on
Ancestry and keep it consistent with your tree in Family Tree Maker.Ó For more information, click here to go to the FTM page on MacKiev.
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GRAVES
GATHERING IN BARDSTOWN, KY, THIS SEPTEMBER
There
will be a Graves family gathering in historic Bardstown, KY, on September 8-10,
2016. Following a successful 2015
gathering in Harrisonburg, VA, this event is being planned by two participants
from 2015, Deb Lowe of Danville, KY, and Michael (ÒMikeÓ) D. Graves of Humble,
TX. The focus is on the group of
Graves descendants who share a common ancestry (probably from Francis Graves,
genealogy 220) from Virginia in the 1700s. Other genealogies on the Graves Family Association website
that are related include 77, 94, 118, 150, 152, 215, and 511. A couple of the charts on the GFA
website that show possible relationships of many of these related Graves
families can be seen here
and here, and
a fairly complete list of all the genealogies descended from this common Graves
ancestor can be seen here.
For
more information about the gathering, click on this link.
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