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. 5, No. 4,
June 13, 2002
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© 2002 by the Graves Family Association and Kenneth V. Graves. All rights reserved.
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CONTENTS:
**General
Comments
**Distribution
of this Bulletin
**February
Issue of Graves Family Newsletter Mailed
**New
Results from DNA Study
**Change
in DNA Testing
**John
Graves of Concord, MA Book
**Reminder
When Viewing Websites
**More
Participants Needed for the DNA Study
**Financial
Help Still Needed for DNA Project
**To
Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
I
was in Ireland for 12 days in late May and early June, so if you have wondered
why you haven’t heard from me, that is the reason. For those of you waiting for a response from me, I try to answer
all correspondence, but am not always able to do so because of the volume of
things demanding attention. I don’t
mind your reminders, however, since sometimes things do get overlooked.
Although
the trip to Ireland was for pleasure, I did put an ad in the Irish Times before
I went. I received a few replies from
that. Irish radio interviewed me about
our DNA analysis study on their 9 a.m. news program (that was 4 a.m. my time, a
little earlier than I would have preferred).
There don’t seem to be many people with the Graves, Greaves, Grieves,
etc. surname presently living in Ireland, but I did have the pleasure of
meeting one Graves descendant while there.
One respondent who heard my radio interview has information on the
Quaker family that went from Ireland to Delaware, and I am hoping to get more
information about that. Another person
suggested that some of the descendants might be named O’Graves and other
variants of that name.
Since
I have been publishing the printed Graves Family Newsletter since 1976,
publishing Graves family books since 1980, and sending this online bulletin for
several years, you may figure I must be pretty old by now. Well, I may be, but I’m still trying to keep
active. I competed in the Rhode Island
Senior Olympics last weekend and won two silver medals in bicycling
events. This coming weekend I will be
competing in the Massachusetts Senior Games in track, cycling and tennis
events. So I don’t spend all my time
with genealogy and my computer.
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DISTRIBUTION
OF THIS BULLETIN
I
am going to have to change the way this bulletin is distributed to you. I recently signed up for high speed DSL
service with Verizon (our regional “baby Bell”). Then when I tried to send this bulletin right before I left for
Ireland, I found that they don’t allow users to send more than a certain number
of messages within a given time period.
If the maximum is exceeded, they cut off service for 24 hours. This is
intended to prevent spam from being sent but makes no allowance for legitimate
multiple copies. As a result of this,
you may see some changes in the Bulletin in the future. If any of you know of a good way to handle
this situation, I would welcome your suggestions.
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FEBRUARY
ISSUE OF GRAVES FAMILY NEWSLETTER MAILED
The
newsletters are behind schedule, and the February 2002 issue was just mailed
May 24. It includes a variety of
information, including genealogies of Parents of Benjamin, Joe and John Graves
of Lancashire, England; Anthony Graves and Mary Crashley of Lincolnshire,
England; David Graves and Mary Holloway, descended from Johann Sebastian Graff;
Christian Nielson Greve and Ane Madsdatter of Denmark; Gerd Grave of Germany;
Thomas Graves and Rebecca Lawless of NC & OH; Willis Graves and Sarah
Torrey Nelson of MA & OH; Socrates Renaldo Graves and Aseneth ------ of VT,
NY, OH & IL; and Thomas Graves and Elizabeth Lanier, descended from Capt.
Thomas Graves of VA.
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NEW
RESULTS FROM DNA STUDY
We
continue to receive additional test results from the Graves/Greaves DNA study,
and we are gradually getting more participants. New results are put on the Graves Family Association website as
quickly as possible.
Results
received since the last bulletin include:
**
Thomas Graves of Lincoln Co., GA (gen. 147) is an exact match with some of the
Capt. Thomas Graves (169) samples.
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William Graves and Susanna ------ of Whitfield, Northamptonshire (gen. 47)
almost exactly matches part of gen. 169.
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Herbert Fletcher Graves/Greaves of Lincolnshire (gen. 428) almost exactly
matches Allen Graves of Dennisport, MA (457) and Samuel Graves of Lynn, MA
(gen. 83). The conclusion is that both
gen. 457 and gen. 83 are descended from the same Lincolnshire ancestor as the
Herbert Fletcher Graves/Greaves descendants.
This is what has been suggested for years, including the possibility that
Lynn, MA was named for Kings Lynn in Lincolnshire.
**
Results from Lt. William Graves of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada (238)
exactly match those for Rear Adm. Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA (28),
confirming that these are probably the same family.
**
John Graves (Johann Sebastian Graff) (gen. 105) exactly matches William M.
Graves and Mary M. Holloway of TN (356), confirming that gen. 356 is descended
from gen. 105.
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A result from the Quaker family of Thomas Graves of New Castle Co., DE (gen.
85) exactly matches results from Thomas Graves of NC & Maury Co., TN (94)
and Humphrey Isaac Greaves of NC (50), confirming that those families are
probably descended from gen. 85.
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CHANGE
IN DNA TESTING
This
week it was announced by Family Tree DNA (our testing laboratory) that the
number of DNA markers tested for has been increased from 21 to 25. All results for which the 21 markers were
reported have now had all 25 markers reported and posted on the Graves Family
Association website. Our group price
for the DNA study is now $170 for testing of all 25 markers.
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JOHN
GRAVES OF CONCORD, MA BOOK
This
is just a reminder that all copies of the John Graves of Concord, MA book that
have been ordered have been shipped (with the exception of a few orders that
have been recently received). If you
ordered a book and have not received it, please let me know. At least a couple of shipments were lost by
the Post Office as a result of apparent rough treatment, so I want to be sure
that no others are missing. I will
probably switch to using UPS for shipping these books in the future to avoid
this problem.
Additional
books are available and can still be ordered at $75 including shipping (some
additional charge for shipping out of the U.S.).
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REMINDER
WHEN VIEWING WEBSITES
One
of the things that your web browser software (Internet Explorer, Netscape,
etc.) does to speed viewing of web pages is to store the last version of the
page that you looked at on the hard drive of your computer. That way you don’t have to wait for the page
to be downloaded from the website, since it can be retrieved from your
computer’s storage much more quickly.
Unfortunately, that also means that sometimes when you go to a web page
that has been changed, you may not see the latest version of that page. To be sure you always see the most recent
version of pages on the Graves Family Association website or any other site,
you can do one of two things. You can
either delete the cached versions of the web pages on your computer, or you can
click on the refresh command in your browser when you are looking at the page.
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MORE
PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR THE DNA STUDY
If you have not yet returned your DNA
samples, PLEASE do so as soon as possible.
If
your part of the Graves, Greaves, or other spelling, family is not yet included
in the DNA study, it would be very helpful if you could either volunteer to
participate (if you are a male with the Graves, etc.) surname or find someone
else in your part of the family who would be willing to take part.
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FINANCIAL
HELP STILL NEEDED FOR DNA PROJECT
All
contributions toward the DNA study will be much appreciated. Many thanks to those of you who have already
contributed. We especially need funding
for testing of descendants in the British Isles, some of whom will probably be
less apt to pay the cost. You may also
want to consider sponsoring a relative as a way to get a test for your part of
the family.
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ABOUT
THIS BULLETIN:
This
bulletin is written and edited by Kenneth V. Graves,
ken.graves@gravesfa.org. Ken Graves is
also editor of the Graves Family Newsletter, the official publication of the
Graves Family Association. 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 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.
TO
JOIN THE GRAVES FAMILY ASSOCIATION:
If
you do not already belong to the GFA, you can join by sending $20 per year (for
U.S. & Canada) or $30 per year (for all other countries) to Graves Family Association,
20 Binney Circle, Wrentham, MA 02093 (more details on GFA website). Note that membership is for a calendar year
so if you join late in the year be sure to specify which year dues are for. Benefits include 6 issues of the newsletter,
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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and Kenneth V. Graves, you are hereby granted rights, unless otherwise
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