GRAVES FAMILY BULLETIN
Vol. 19, No. 9, December 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
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General Comments
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More About DNA Testing and Family Tree DNA Holiday Sale
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Temporary Problems With GFA Website Have Been Fixed
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Book About European Ancestry and Families of Viking Origin
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Most Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong
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Book About Dogs by Laura Greaves of New South Wales, Australia
** To Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other
Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
Merry
Christmas and happy holidays! Since the year and the Family Tree DNA holiday
sale will both be ending at midnight (Central Standard Time in the U.S.),
December 31, this is my last opportunity to encourage more of you to take
advantage of the holiday sale to order the Big Y test. Some of the other tests are helpful
also, but the Big Y test for males is the main one needed to enable us to
connect related genealogies and prove male lineages.
I
have included a list of the coupons I have access to for Big Y and other DNA
tests for this final week. If you
want to take a Big Y test but canÕt afford the cost, I can see that adequate
money is made available. Even
though the analysis of the results and their use for constructing our family
tree has progressed much slower than I had hoped, the eventual results will be
well worthwhile for all of us.
Please order before the sale ends!
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MORE ABOUT DNA
TESTING AND FAMILY TREE DNA HOLIDAY SALE
The
Family Tree DNA holiday sale ends at midnight, Dec. 31. Many of the DNA tests are helpful in
tracing your ancestry, or of possible interest to you. However, for those of you who are male
or are responsible for the testing of male family members, I encourage the
purchase of a Big Y test or a recommended SNP Pack, or to help fund one for
someone else in your part of the family.
During
the holiday sale, any customer who purchases the Big Y will receive a free
upgrade to Y-111 from any level STR test.
You MUST currently have a Y-DNA test either ordered or completed in the
system.
COUPONS
FTDNA
is giving away coupons (called Holiday Rewards) for their most popular DNA
tests. New coupons have been
posted every Monday. If you are a
FTDNA customer, go to your personal page and click on the link at the top of
your page. They are also allowing
all their customers to share those coupons with anyone else by just entering
your name and the recipientÕs email address. The coupons are only good for 7 days, so check your personal
page on FTDNA and either use the coupon or offer to share it with someone else.
Check your Holiday Rewards to see what you have.
Coupons
I presently have that you are welcome to use (all expiring on Dec. 31) are
listed below. Since Big Y is $475
during this sale, the $75 off coupons apply to it.
COUPON
CODE |
SPECIAL
OFFER |
|
|
R344CA7NLH0B |
$5
off any purchase of $39 or more |
R34J1MXOYVFI |
$5
off any purchase of $39 or more |
R34DSWJ724QU |
$5
off any purchase of $39 or more |
R346AGFV4ON5 |
$5
off any purchase of $39 or more |
R344UHKZNLDH |
$5
off any purchase of $39 or more |
R34ZDQNDRHF0 |
$5
off any purchase of $39 or more |
R342JXS18AD3 |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34R5CX6F37K |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34QGLTZU06M |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R349R9OQI3ZX |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34FOUIYR4PJ |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34K5EEANJSX |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34YC6P9NETK |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34WEFN50MZ0 |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R3496NZUIWB3 |
$10
off any purchase of $100 or more |
R34I4BEJSMTN |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R34IT99Y7C9Y |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R340S2W0XM2B |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R34F9VZXDC5T |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R34BCSY5M1R7 |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R348R0BKAL75 |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R34TIV2ESMD1 |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R34IJWWICY3F |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R345610J490T |
$20
off any purchase of $175 or more |
R34C4ZOH0G0Y |
$50
off any purchase of $350 or more |
R34BSII7BZD5 |
$50
off any purchase of $350 or more |
R34RC7YQYY8B |
$50
off any purchase of $350 or more |
R346F2TI2Q2A |
$50
off any purchase of $350 or more |
R34WJEEJONMZ |
$75 off any purchase of $475 or more |
R343II4IBVZB |
$75 off any purchase of $475 or more |
R34BS401B4UJ |
$75 off any purchase of $475 or more |
R34E1NK27LAE |
$75 off any purchase of $475 or more |
R347FYOV50YV |
$75 off any purchase of $475 or more |
R343GCYGMZCA |
$75 off any purchase of $475 or more |
R34C7KI3NT8Y |
$100
off any purchase of $525 or more |
R347JQ1HZAQM |
$100
off any purchase of $525 or more |
WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES TO
YOU AND OTHERS OF TAKING TESTS LIKE BIG Y?
¥
Finding where your Graves/Greaves ancestor lived at a particular time
in the past, possibly allowing tracking of their migration and dispersion
paths. This comes partly via some
descendants knowing where their ancestors lived.
¥
Discovering about when the surname first began to be used for your
particular line.
¥
Finding how your Graves/Greaves family is related to other
Graves/Greaves families.
¥
Finding how your family connects with other families that share a
common Graves/Greaves ancestor.
¥
Finding SNPs belonging to specific branches or even to people within
branches of large families, allowing confirmation of lineages and proper
placement of previously unplaced segments of families.
¥
Much better identification and placement of people of unknown ancestry,
such as adoptees.
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TEMPORARY
PROBLEMS WITH GFA WEBSITE HAVE BEEN FIXED
It
sometimes seems that as soon as one problem is fixed, another pops up. I just recently discovered that the
Graves Family Association website could not be accessed, and was instead
displaying a message that it was not secure. That problem has now been fixed by upgrading from HTTP
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to HTTPS (HTTP Secure), and adding SSL and
website security.
As
part of that process, at least two additional problems developed. The search box no longer nicely shrunk
down to the left side of the page, and the listing of subpages no longer
displayed when a mouse hovered over the tabs at the top of the page. Those problems have been fixed. Please let me know if you find other
problems.
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BOOK ABOUT
EUROPEAN ANCESTRY AND FAMILIES OF VIKING ORIGIN
Charles
L. Graves wrote me the following comments on Nov. 29. He is descended from genealogy 70 for Richard Greaves of
Bradfield, Yorkshire and Chesterfield, Derbyshire, born about 1560. He has previously contributed valuable
research results for the possible origin and associates of Capt. Thomas Graves
of Virginia (gen. 169).
He
wrote: ÒNow I have read the book by Karin Bojs a journalist member of the
Swedish Genetic Genealogy Society (SSGG). It is entitled My European Family. The First 54,000 years (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017),
which should be a main source for all Greaves and Graves with a Scandinavian
background like my family. She is from the Gothenberg area in Bohuslan on the
west coast just south of Norway and discusses the origins of peoples from that
region based on their DNA back 8-10,000 years. They are the people who,
together with the Danes from north Jutland, invaded eastern England from 850 AD
onwards for 150 years (Vikings) and probably account for most Greaves and
Graves ancestors.
In
her book she has all the Haplogroups defined vis ˆ vis Europeans, based upon
widespread numbers of scientists she interviewed at various archaeological and
university sites all over Europe. The book is extremely relevant DNA
explanatory source for a family such as Graves.
By
the way, after finding my Greaves roots in Yorkshire / Derbyshire I have
visited Shirland, Derbys, very often and even today take my twice yearly
holidays there. We held reunions there in 2004 (for mainly second and earlier
cousins) and in 2016 (for my brother and first cousins). I have found the exact
location of my great-great-grandfather Samuel GreavesÕ farm which he left in
1819 to go to New York. It is a kind of place of pilgrimage, together with his
wifeÕs (Sarah BlountÕs) village nearby. Our last reunion was held in a hotel
which once was lived in, as farmhouse, by SarahÕs motherÕs family.Ó
See
a review of her book here. It is available from Amazon and
elsewhere.
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MOST
EVERYTHING YOU LEARNED ABOUT THANKSGIVING IS WRONG
An article
about Thanksgiving was in the Nov. 21 issue of the New York Times. According to the article, Òthe story of
the first Thanksgiving, as most Americans have been taught it, is not exactly
accurate.
Blame
school textbooks with details often so abridged, softened or out of context
that they are rendered false; childrenÕs books that distill the story to its
most pleasant version; or animated Thanksgiving television specials like ÒThe
Mouse on the Mayflower,Ó which first aired in 1968, that not only misinformed a
generation, but also enforced a slew of cringeworthy stereotypes.
High
school textbooks are particularly bad about stating absolutes because these
materials Òteach historyÓ by giving students facts to memorize even when the
details may be unclear, said James W. Loewen, a sociologist and the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your
American History Textbook Got Wrong.Ó
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BOOK ABOUT
DOGS BY LAURA GREAVES OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
An
article called ÒInspiring stories in
Dogs with Jobs from author Laura GreavesÓ was in the Dec. 8, 2017 issue of
Blue Mountains Gazette. This is
her second book about dogs, and it went on sale November 27. This book is a collection of true
stories about some of the hardest working dogs from around the world. Laura, the former editor of Dogs Life magazine, is also the author
of three romantic comedy novels.
The
Blue Mountains is a rugged region about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
ItÕs a very scenic area with waterfalls, cliffs, and eucalyptus forests.
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