GRAVES FAMILY BULLETIN
Vol. 19, No. 3, April 26,
2017
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
**
Graves Family Gathering, Oct. 25-28, 2017
**
DNA Sale at Family Tree DNA
**
Future Plans for the Graves Family Association
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Updates to the GFA Website
**
News Article About Sanford Graves of Florida
**
Still More for Jamestowne Society/Mayflower Society Eligibility
** To Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other
Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
For
anyone interested in taking advantage of sale prices, see the DNA sale of
Family Tree DNA in one of the articles in this issue. Since the sale ends at midnight, April 27, I decided I better
send this bulletin, even though I have other articles not yet finished. They will have to wait for the next
issue.
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GRAVES FAMILY
GATHERING, OCT. 25-28, 2017
A
Graves family gathering for all those whose Graves ancestors lived in Virginia
in the 1600Õs and 1700Õs will be held in Virginia Oct. 25-28, 2017. See the complete description and
schedule on the GFZ Facebook page here
or on the GFA website here. The schedule includes Spotsylvania Co.
(home area of Thomas and John, sons of Capt. Thomas Graves of genealogy 169),
Historic Jamestowne and Jamestown Settlement, HungarÕs Church and Curtis
Plantation, and Colonial Williamsburg.
Those
who have attended the previous couple of gatherings organized by Steve Graves
(of St. Petersburg, FL, gen. 215) and others have been descended from genealogies
270 (John Graves/Greaves of Northamptonshire, England & VA) and 220
(Francis Graves of Gloucester Co. & Essex Co., VA), and other families
probably descended from or sharing a common ancestor with 220 (including
genealogies 77, 94, 118, 150, 152, 215, and 511). Both of these families had many members living in
Spotsylvania Co., VA, in the 1600s and 1700s.
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DNA SALE AT
FAMILY TREE DNA
National
DNA Day is April 25 in the U.S.
Beginning Thursday, April 20, and continuing through midnight (Central
Time) on April 27, Family Tree DNA will be holding a National DNA Day
sale. Upgrades of tests already
taken (Y-DNA and mtDNA) are not included.
The table below shows the special prices. You can see more information on the FTDNA website by
clicking here.
If
you are descended from a genealogy headed by a male with the Greaves surname
where no one has yet taken a Y-DNA test, I strongly urge you to take a Y-DNA
test (if you are a male with the Graves/Greaves name), or get someone else who
is to take the test. If you are
part of one of the major Y-DNA groups for which we are trying to connect
individual genealogies within your group, you should probably consider taking a
Big Y or SNP Pack test. If we
donÕt yet know where your genealogy falls on the Y-haplogroup tree, you should
consider a Big Y test or at least a SNP backbone test.
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FUTURE PLANS
FOR THE GRAVES FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Help
is needed in planning for the future of the Graves Family Association and its
activities, and implementing some of those plans. We need some people (other than me) thinking about the
knowledge and information of the Graves Family Association, and how best to
preserve it and make it more available to everyone. I have been doing what I do
for more than 40 years, and I'm not going to be around forever. Plus, there are
things that need doing that I don't have time to do.
In
a recent article by Dick Eastman (EastmanÕs Online Genealogy Newsletter, Jan.
2, 2017), he suggested the following (published here with permission of the
author), modified to apply specifically to our organization:
¥ Use electronic
publishing. DonÕt produce hard
cover books or other printed publications unless full cost can be charged to
whoever wants them.
¥ Increase GFA publications,
do it electronically, and charge for most of them.
¥ Hold more meetings
(including with presentations and Q&A) and do it electronically.
¥ Post frequent GFA updates on
our Facebook page. Look at whether
we have the right kind of Facebook page to allow us to do that.
¥ Update the GFA website
frequently.
¥ Recruit new members,
especially those with technical expertise.
¥ Form special interest groups
(SIGs) to address special interests (such as how to research your
Graves/Greaves ancestors, Y-DNA groups for common Graves ancestors, etc.)
Some
of the activities Dick suggested may not apply to the GFA as much as to
local
genealogy societies, and some are undoubtedly more important than
others.
Some
of the other things I would like to see are:
¥ Convert the genealogies into
a format that is easier to update; they are presently created as word
processing documents because when they were started there were no genealogy
programs. I am the only one who can update them, and I will never have enough
time to do that.
¥ Convert the GF Bulletin into
a blog, and post articles regularly.
¥ Get more people to help
manage various aspects of the Graves/Greaves DNA project. I am presently the
only one doing that.
¥ Establish research project
to address high-interest areas such as finding and proving the identity,
ancestry and descendants of Capt. Thomas Graves of genealogy 169. I can create
a plan and provide guidance, but other capable, interested people are needed to
follow through.
A
specific example of one of our needs is what Steve Graves recently wrote on
Facebook: ÒSomething all of us researchers should be reminded of: WE EACH DON'T
LIVE FOREVER. That while actively looking to uncover the past, we should also
be organizing what we have - culling out and making clear that which we believe
to be most accurate.
This
past year, as I looked at a few other GFA genealogies closest to me (per Y-DNA111
testing), I reached out, with KenÕs help, to two resources named R-1 and R-23
in their GFA genealogy text, only to find out that: (1) they had passed just
recently, (yes we should be reminded too that we all ARE racing the clock to
get to more primary sources), and (2) the children of those who'd passed knew
little or nothing about the parent's genealogy work...and in one case had
already shipped parts of it off to distant relatives who requested this or that
or given photos to one child, papers to another, record copies to
another...breaking up the collection.
In each case, for me, these were key researchers / key contributors to
their GFA posted genealogy text....and had I gotten to them sooner, I could
have said "Please tell me how you came up with such and such" and I
would have understood or been able to carry further because of what they had done.
But that all was lost.Ó
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UPDATES TO THE
GFA WEBSITE
Updated
pages:
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Numerical Listing of Genealogies and Charts, charts.php
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Graves Family Newsletter Page, gfnl.php (added links to many of the
newsletters)
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Main Page, index.php (added note about links to back newsletters and
Graves gathering in VA)
Updated
charts:
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Y-DNA Group R1-047 SNP Tree, Y-SNP-Tree-R1-047.pdf
New
Genealogies:
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Gen. 646, Thomas Graves and Ann Ferguson of NC & AL
Revised
genealogies:
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Gen. 77, John Graves and Margery Harvey of Randolph Co., NC
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Gen. 270, John Graves/Greaves of Northamptonshire, England &
Virginia
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Gen. 354, John Douglas Graves and Mary Magdalene Zeigler of GA & AL
– (I thought there was a connection to gen. 270, but that was wrong)
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NEWS ARTICLE
ABOUT SANFORD GRAVES OF FLORIDA
Joyce
Graves recently posted a comment on the GFA Facebook page about something she
saw on Fox Channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ.
The story was about 93-year-old Sanford (ÒSandyÓ) Graves and 95-year-old
Marshall Clark, the last two surviving pilots of a World War II bomber squadron,
and their recent reunion in Bradenton, FL.
I
responded that this is Dr. Sanford
Graves, son of Cecil Frank Graves and Lucille Whiteneck of genealogy 277. Someone should contact him and ask him
or one of his sons to take a Y-DNA test so we know which Graves family in
England he is part of.
In
this picture they are taking care of some unfinished business. By military
tradition, as the last two survivors, they are drinking from a bottle of Cognac
saved for this occasion. To see a
video and more information, click here.
The
first reunion of the 451st Bomber Squadron was in Chicago in
1946. The squadron started in 1942
at what was then MacDill Field in Tampa, FL. Later, they flew their B-26 Marauders to Europe to fight the
Nazis.
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STILL MORE FOR
JAMESTOWNE SOCIETY/MAYFLOWER SOCIETY ELIGIBILITY
In
the GF Bulletin of Jan. 31 (vol. 19, no. 1), D. Alan Smith wrote about an
ancestor eligible for membership in both the Jamestowne Society and the
Mayflower Society.
In GF Bulletin, vol. 19, no. 2, Gerald M. Graves wrote: ÒI am afraid that Mr. Smith ran together his two
ancestor societies and gave a false impression in his comment on the Jamestown
Society at the end of this monthÕs bulletin. He stated that descendants of
Roxana Rose Graves are eligible for Mayflower Society membership based on the
VA Company shares owned by John Vassall. That should make them eligible for
Jamestown Society membership. But only descendants of the passengers on the
ship Mayflower on the 1620 voyage can join the Mayflower Society. Roxanna Rose
may be a Mayflower descendant, but not through John Vassall.Ó
D.
Alan Smith wrote in response: ÒRoxanna
Rose is a descendant of William White and his son Resolved, thus a Mayflower
passenger descendant. Resolved's wife Judith Vassall is the granddaughter
of John Vassall, a VA stockholder. Thus any descendant of Roxanna Rose
Graves is indeed eligible for both societies. John Vassall''s father was
a Huguenot refugee to England.Ó He
also wrote: ÒSorry if
original email was not clear. I
simply wanted people to know that Roxana Rose Graves was a viable avenue
for at least four lineage groups (including at least one Huguenot society),
especially since most people don't connect Plymouth, Boston, and Jamestowne.Ó
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