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.
9, No. 1, Jan. 26, 2007
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Copyright
© 2007 by the Graves Family Association and Kenneth V. Graves. All rights reserved.
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CONTENTS:
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General Comments
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GFA Website Changes and Regional Chapter News
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Benefits of Becoming a GFA Member
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June 2007 Reunion in Williamsburg, VA
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Your Family Tree DNA Web Page
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Death of Josh Graves and a Related Research Puzzle
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To Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other Things
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GENERAL
COMMENTS
We
are leaving tomorrow (Saturday) morning for vacation in Florida. Since I don’t have all the information I
wanted to have for this bulletin, I will send another issue next month while we
are on vacation. Among the important developments
I hope to be able to say more about are the website development and our reunion
in Williamsburg, VA this June (plus some of the smaller gatherings that have
been mentioned).
We
have continued to learn more from the DNA study and have also added
considerably to many genealogies.
One
of the most important objectives of the GFA is to provide all descendants with
the help they need and to get them more involved with the Association and with
each other. One important step in that
direction is the steady development of the regional chapters, as discussed in
this Bulletin.
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GFA
WEBSITE CHANGES AND REGIONAL CHAPTER NEWS
The
main changes that have been made recently to the website are the addition of pages
for the GFA Regional Chapters. In
addition to the active chapter in the Washington, DC area, a chapter is
starting in the Texas area. Interest
has also been expressed in starting chapters in the Seattle, WA, area, and in
Canada (contact Linda McPike at eljay43@aol.com).
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BENEFITS
OF BECOMING A GFA MEMBER
We encourage you to join the Graves Family Association. The dues are $20/year for regular membership
and $40/year for sustaining membership.
More information can be found on the GFA website at www.gravesfa.org/gfamemb.html. In
return for your dues you get the following benefits.
Note
that you will not receive a hard copy (printed) newsletter or membership
directory. Both those things were
discontinued several years ago because of the high cost and preparation time
required.
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JUNE
2007 REUNION IN WILLIAMSBURG, VA
It
is not too late to sign up, but if you want to stay at the Patrick Henry Inn
(where our meetings will be), you should make your reservation there as soon as
possible. The events manager told me
recently that they may not have any more rooms listed as available right now
(since we long ago exceeded our block of rooms), but he can put people on a
wait list, and he can also refer you to nearby hotels that do still have
rooms. See the reunion page of the GFA
website for details on how to contact the Inn, etc.
If
you are planning to attend the reunion, we need for you to complete the
preliminary registration form, which can be found on the GFA website. This is so we will know you plan to attend,
and so we can get a rough idea of how many people to plan for at the meetings,
on the tours, and for the dinners. The
costs for all the events are not yet known but, as soon as they are, they will
be posted on the website, and they will also be included in this Bulletin. There is a preliminary schedule of events on
the website also.
Just
because most of those attending the reunion will be descended from Capt. Thomas
Graves of VA doesn’t mean that others wouldn’t enjoy the weekend. The Capt. Thomas Graves family is related to
New England families, the area is very interesting from an historical and
entertainment perspective, and all of the presentations and discussions will be
of interest to all the Graves and Greaves families. We will be talking about our DNA study, families in England and
elsewhere, future trips and meetings, etc.
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YOUR
FAMILY TREE DNA PAGE
Please
remember to add your DNA test results at www.Ysearch.org,
the FTDNA sponsored public database. When going to the Y-DNA Matches tab at
your personal page, you will see an explanation and a link for the upload.
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DEATH
OF JOSH GRAVES AND A RELATED RESEARCH PUZZLE
Josh
Graves
(born Sept. 27, 1927, died Sept. 30, 2006 in Nashville, TN) was an American
bluegrass musician. Born Burkett K. Graves, at Tellico Plains, Monroe
County, Tennessee, his birthdate has also been variously published as 1925, or
September 27, 1928. (His name was given
as Burkett Howard Graves in an Associated Press article published in the Dallas
Morning News.) Also known by the
nicknames "Buck," and "Uncle Josh," he is credited with
introducing the dobro into bluegrass music shortly after joining Lester Flatt,
Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955. He was inducted into the
International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1997.
He is on the Famous Family Members page of
the GFA website. The Country Music News
website, in its obituary, states that his parents were Elizabeth and Troy
Graves. Survivors include his wife of
61 years Evelyn Graves; daughters Linda Howell and Bambi Lynn Broersma; sons
Burkett (Josh) Graves, Jr., Billy Troy Graves, and Raymond Bryan Graves; sister
Jewel Key; brother Harold R. Graves; 18 grandchildren; and 11
great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held October 3 at the Chapel of
Madison Funeral Home, with interment in Hendersonville Memory Gardens.
The
puzzle is that neither he nor his parents have yet been positively identified
in the 1930 census. It is possible that
he is the Howard Graves, age 2 years and 8 months, in the 1930 census for
Maryville, Blount Co. (next to Monroe Co.), TN, with parents Traues (or Tranes)
Graves, 27, NC, and Lizzie, 25, TN, and brother Richard, 8, TN. Can anyone help find his family and
ancestry?
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ABOUT
THIS BULLETIN:
This
bulletin is written and edited by Kenneth V. Graves, ken.graves@gravesfa.org. Ken Graves was also editor of the Graves
Family Newsletter (no longer published).
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 used to appear in the Graves Family Newsletter.
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you do not already belong to the GFA, you can join by sending $20 per year to
Graves Family Association, 20 Binney Circle, Wrentham, MA 02093 (more details
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membership directory, and help with learning more about your Graves/Greaves
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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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