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. 4, No. 3,
Sept. 24, 2001
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Copyright
© 2001 by the Graves Family Association and Kenneth V. Graves. All rights reserved.
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CONTENTS:
**Graves
Family Newsletter
**John
Graves Book and Other Graves Family Books
**Graves
Family Association Web Site
**DNA
Analysis Project
**Miscellaneous
Stuff
**To
Submit Material to this Bulletin & Other Things
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GRAVES
FAMILY NEWSLETTER
The
June issue of the Graves Family Newsletter is presently at the printer. I expect it to be mailed by the end of this
week. The newsletter is published 6
times per year and contains information on all the various Graves and Greaves
families, queries, and other items of interest.
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JOHN
GRAVES BOOK AND OTHER GRAVES FAMILY BOOKS
I
have announced that the JOHN GRAVES of Concord, MA book will be ready for
shipment by the end of October.
However, that date may not be met.
This project is like one of the so-called laws of business, "If
anything can go wrong it will."
The book is more than 1600 pages and contains over 200 photos, and it is
being produced and sent to the publisher entirely electronically.
I
will mention some of the problems that I have encountered with this project
that may help explain the long delays.
I was first told that I had to use software other than the Microsoft
Word that I had used to create the genealogy.
So I went out and purchased Adobe PageMaker and learned how to use it,
only to discover that it couldn't handle footnotes and certain other
requirements. After returning to Word
and indexing all names and places, I discovered that the Linotronic printer
(and the printer driver) required by the printing company changed the
pagination of the book. This meant that
all the photos had to be repositioned in the entire book, and the indexing had
to be completely redone. That
re-indexing is now almost complete, and the book will be sent to the printer
after that, probably by the end of this month.
If they can do all of their processing in a month, we may still make the
end of October, but it may take a little longer than that (if no other problem
occurs).
The
price of the book is $75 (including postage), and it can still be ordered from
me. Checks for this and all other books
should be made payable to Kenneth V. Graves.
A
list of all books that have been published and a discussion of what will be
published in the future is on the GFA website.
However, since I am often asked about the books, here are the ones that
are available now. More about them is
on the website.
ROBERT GRAVES of Anson Co., NC and Chesterfield Co., SC (descended from Capt.
Thomas Graves of VA)
Published in 1980, 408 pages, $26.00.
SAMUEL GRAVES of Lynn, MA
Published in 1985, 446 pages, $36.00.
THOMAS GRAVES of Hartford, CT and Hatfield, MA
Published in 1985, 710 pages, $46.00.
GRAVES FAMILIES OF THE WORLD
Published in 1994, 509 pages, $41.00.
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS GRAVES of Charlestown, MA
Published in 1994, 267 pages, $23.00.
DEACON GEORGE GRAVES of Hartford, CT
Published March 1995, 446 pages, $35.00.
Books
will be published in the future on ALL the various Graves. Greaves, Grave,
etc., families. After the publication
of the John Graves of Concord, MA book, the planned order of publication is:
**Graves
Families of Randolph Co., NC (in 2002)
**John
Graves of Frederick Co., VA
**Capt.
Thomas Graves of VA
**Others,
including Johann Sebastian Graff (John Graves) and other German Graves
families, Graves families of England and elsewhere, Thomas Graves of New Castle
Co., DE, etc.
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GRAVES
FAMILY ASSOCIATION WEB SITE
(http://www.gravesfa.org)
The
website was just updated yesterday, with some new and revised genealogies being
added. There have also been recent
additions to the DNA Analysis Project pages.
Please
note that when some of the larger genealogies are revised, the updated version
does not necessarily contain all material that I have received. Examples of genealogies on the site that are
still lacking much of the information I have are the ones for Capt. Thomas
Graves of VA, and for John Graves (Johann Sebastian Graff) of PA, NC & TN.
Take
a look at the site, and let us have your comments and suggestions.
TIPS
ON USING THE SITE:
**
If you are trying to search or download a large file (such as the Alphabetical
Ancestor Listing or the Capt. Thomas Graves of VA genealogy), be sure you wait
long enough. These are very large files
and it may take a long time for the entire file to load to your computer. If you search for something toward the end
of a large file and haven't waited long enough for it to load, you may not find
it, even though it is there.
**
When you access the website or a page of the site and it doesn't seem to be the
most recent version, it may be because your browser displays what is called a
cached copy of the page. When you visit
a web site, your browser will usually save a copy of what you look at on your
computer. Next time you visit that
site, your computer may display the cached version of the page. To be sure you see the most recent version
of any page, click the "Refresh" button at the top of your browser
screen.
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DNA
ANALYSIS PROJECT
The
Graves/Greaves DNA Analysis Project has been started. We hope that this will help us find which families are connected
and which are not, where documentation cannot be found. A description of the project was sent to
everyone in our database via e-mail and "snail mail" in July and
August. Further information can be
found on the GFA website by clicking on the DNA Project link at the top of the
main page. A total of 85 people in the
U.S., Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand, representing 51 different
Graves and Greaves families, agreed to participate. They were sent a test kit and instructions Sept. 8-11. As soon as most of the DNA samples have been
returned to me, they will be sent to the testing laboratory (Family Tree DNA)
for analysis. I expect to have at least
some of the results by early to mid-November.
Participants will be provided with their own results, and the summarized
results will be posted on the GFA website.
In
case any of you who are participating in the testing are unsure about the cost
of the initial phase of the project, it is $189. Checks should be made payable to me, Kenneth V. Graves.
The
project is not over -- far from it.
This is only the beginning. Our
cost for all future testing will be $199 per person. As before, since we are testing the Y-chromosome which is only
passed from male to male, testing can only be done of male descendants with the
Graves/Greaves/etc. surname. To reduce
the cost impact, one family member or a group of family members can pay for one
person to be their representative. If
you are a female and want to learn more about your Graves ancestry, maybe you
can find a direct male descendant and sponsor him for the study.
There
is a list of families participating in the DNA study on the GFA website. There is also a list of some of the families
that we would like to see added to the list.
Families needed include:
**Graves
Family of Yorkshire and Mickleton Manor, Gloucestershire, England (68)
**Greaves
Family of Beeley, Derbyshire, England (228)
**George
Graves of Plaistow, England (64)
**Other
families of the British Isles, especially including families of Grieve,
Grieves, Greve, and other spellings
**Graves
families of Netherlands, France and elsewhere
**John
Graves (Johann Sebastian Graff) of PA, NC & TN (105)
**Joseph
Graves and Rachel Pratt of Framingham, MA (133)
**Richard
Graves and Polly Lucy of SC & AR (189)
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MISCELLANEOUS
STUFF
Every
now and then I like to let you know what is happening and why. Earlier in this bulletin I mentioned the
June issue of the newsletter just about to be mailed. I hope to get the August and October issues completed as soon as possible. However, the John Graves book has taken
priority over the newsletter.
Then,
of course, I have been maintaining the GFA website and trying to answer some of
the volume of correspondence while conducting the new DNA analysis
project. I apologize if some of these
tasks haven't been done as quickly as we would prefer. Some of your orders for books and GFA
memberships have accumulated also, and I plan to process those within the next
week.
I
appreciate your help and understanding, and am excited about the progress we
are making toward a better understanding of the worldwide Graves/Greaves
families.
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E-MAIL
ADDRESS AND POSTAL MAILING ADDRESS FOR KEN GRAVES
I
used to have a couple of other e-mail addresses, including one on AOL. I now have only one address,
ken.graves@gravesfa.org. Also, we moved
to another house in the same town more than 2 years ago. However, I occasionally find that people
have tried to contact me at my old address.
Please be sure to use the correct addresses. If you forget, you can always look on the GFA website. Thanks.
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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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