GRAVES FAMILY BULLETIN
Vol. 19, No. 7, August 31,
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
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General Comments
**
Order Y-DNA Test Upgrades Before Sale Ends
**
More About Famous People Descended from Graves/Greaves Ancestors
** To Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other
Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
This
is a first. Although I just
published a GF Bulletin yesterday, this is an addendum to that. The urgency has to do with today being
the final day of the special DNA test sale at Family Tree DNA. I am hoping that we can get a few more
people to order Y-DNA upgrades before the sale ends tonight.
For
those in the U.S., we wish you a happy Labor Day weekend. And for all of you living in Houston
and elsewhere in that area, our prayers are with you for survival and recovery
from the storm disaster.
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ORDER Y-DNA
TEST UPGRADES BEFORE SALE ENDS
Mike
Walsh, the volunteer R1b lead project administrator just posted the following
message to the ISOGG list. His
comments definitely apply to most of those in our Graves DNA study.
ÒWe've had a lot of upgrade activity in the
R1b project with the August sale that ends TODAY at 12 midnight Houston
time. I've had email exchanges with a tremendous number of people over
the last couple of days.
Some of the largest subclades of R1b-M269
already have 1 of 2 haplogroup project members with 111 Y-STRs and 1 of 3
with Big Y. We should be able to notch that up a bit with all of the
recent orders. The good news is that the more people that upgrade,
the more people will see benefits, then the more people will upgrade. I
think we are reaching critical mass for R1b Y DNA.
Big Y helps
1. Discovers your own line of SNPs from the
ancient into the genealogical timeframe
2. Places you accurately and precisely on the
big Y DNA tree of mankind
3. Better Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor
estimates
You can't go wrong with this ($395 sale price)
111 Y STRs can help with
1. More differentiation of branching within a
surname and extended family by identification of signature markers
2. Better prioritization of matches including
reduction of false matches
3. Better Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor
estimates
4. Reduce targeted SNP testing costs (if not
doing Big Y)
5. More encouragement for your better matches
to test your SNPs (if you did do Big Y)
Get all the STRs you can (Y25-67 $148, Y37-67
$79, Y37-111 $168, Y67-111 $99 sales prices)
To order an upgrade:
1. Log in with your kit # at https://www.familytreedna.com/
2. From your myFTDNA Dashboard click on the
blue UPGRADES button in the top of the Y-DNA section
3. Select the upgrade you want. You will see
the discount on your SHOPPING CART display where you can place your order.Ó
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MORE ABOUT
FAMOUS PEOPLE DESCENDED FROM GRAVES/GREAVES ANCESTORS
In
the previous issue of this bulletin, I wrote: There has been some recent
discussion on the Graves Family Association Facebook page about famous people
with Graves or Greaves ancestry.
There is a page on the Graves Family Association website for this. You
can see who is included there by going to the website, hovering over
History/News, and clicking on Famous Family Members.
The People included there
are the following. Any additions you can suggest will be considered.
á
James Arness,
American actor (Gen. 166)
á
George H. W.
Bush, 41st U.S. President (Gen. 169)
á
George W. Bush,
43rd U.S. President (Gen. 169)
á
Hoagy Carmichael,
American song writer (Gen. 11)
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Grover Cleveland,
U.S. President (Gen. 168)
á
John R. Coffee,
American General and "father of Tennessee" (Gen. 169)
á
(John) Calvin
Coolidge, U.S. President (Gen. 28)
á
Jay Norwood
("Ding") Darling, American Conservation Hero (Gen.
168)
á
Frank Murray
Dixon, Governor of Alabama (Gen. 169)
á
Jesse Franklin,
U.S. Senator and Governor of NC (Gen. 270)
á
Absalom Graves
Gaines, President of St. Lawrence University (Gen. 169)
á
Adam Graves,
Canadian ice hockey star (Ancestry unknown)
á
Bibb Graves,
2-time governor of Alabama (Gen. 220)
á
Danny Graves,
U.S. baseball player (Ancestry unknown)
á
Denyce Graves,
American opera singer (Ancestry unknown)
á
Georgia Graves,
American classical music singer (Ancestry unknown)
á
Henry Graves,
American Millionaire and watch collector (Gen. 166)
á
Henry Lee Graves,
president of Baylor University (Gen. 270)
á
Howard D. Graves,
Lt. Gen., U.S. Army (Gen. 13)
á
John Alexander
Graves III, American author (Gen. 169)
á
John Woodcock
Graves, English composer, artist, entrepreneur, and eccentric
(Ancestry unknown)
á
Josh Graves,
American musician (Gen. 92)
á
Michael Graves,
American architect and designer (Gen. 94)
á
Michael Graves,
American actor (Ancestry unknown)
á
Morris Cole
Graves, American painter (Gen. 65)
á
Nancy Stevenson
Graves, American sculptor (Ancestry unknown)
á
Peter Graves,
American actor (Gen. 166)
á
Robert Ranke
Graves, English author and poet (Gen. 68)
á
Rupert Simeon
Graves, English actor (Gen. 338)
á
Sam Graves,
U.S. Congressman from Missouri (Gen. 270)
á
Samuel Graves,
English Admiral (Gen. 68)
á
William Pierce
Evans Graves, editor of National Geographic magazine (Gen. 169)
á
William Preston
Graves, governor of Kansas (Gen. 152)
á
William Sidney
Graves, American Major General (Gen. 270)
á
Ann Greaves,
creator of the world-famous Bakewell Pudding (Ancestry unknown)
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Anthony
("Tony") Robert Greaves, Baron Greaves, member of the
House of Lords (Ancestry unknown)
á
Clinton Greaves,
Buffalo Soldier and recipient of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor
(Ancestry unknown)
á
Jimmy Greaves,
English football star (Ancestry unknown)
á
William Abraham
Greaves, American Artist (Gen. 70)
á
John Mumford
Gregory, Jr., governor of Virginia (Gen. 169)
á
Alex Haley,
American author (Gen. 270)
á
Rutherford B.
Hayes, U.S. President (Gen. 213)
á
Barbara Mandrell,
American country music singer (Gen. 13)
á
Louise Mandrell,
American country music singer (Gen. 13)
á
Steve McQueen,
American Actor (Gen. 270)
á
John Motley
Morehead III, American Industrialist and Philanthropist (Gen.
270)
á
Mickey Rooney,
American Actor (Gen. 270)
á
John Graves
Simcoe, English Lt.-General and moulder of present-day Canada
(Gen. 68)
á
John Wayne,
American Actor (Gen. 345)
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