Graves Name Study

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Welcome!

This is where the Graves Family Association is collecting information in one placeabout the GRAVES, GREAVES, GRAVE, GREAVE, GREVE, GREVES, GRIEVE, GRIEVES, GRAFF, and GROFF surnames.

For the sake of brevity, we will use the surname GRAVES below, but we are including every variant of Graves as well as members of every country!

About the Graves Family Association

The beginnings of the association were very informal. Starting as early as 1877, General John Card Graves was collecting letters and doing interviews with family members to create the first collective Graves Family genealogies.

Kenneth Vance Graves collected this work and started the Graves Family Newsletter. After the desire for a genealogy association developed as a start of this work, the Graves Family Association was officially started in 1976. 985 genealogies were published by the time he passed away in 2022.

The Graves Family Association moved onto the Internet in 1997, and its first electronic newsletter was sent on 23 May 1997. Its Facebook Group was started for members to interact directly with one another on 1 October 2011.

Members from the Facebook group are continuing on the legacy of General John Card Graves and Kenneth Vance Graves to continue finding Graves families throughout the world and introduce them to one another. Plans are being made to update the published genealogies, create new ones, and use the findings of DNA studies at Family Tree DNA.

Please see the following resources for additional information on the Graves Family:

For genealogy information:

• Website of the Graves Family Association
• Graves Family Association Facebook Group

For genetic genealogy information:

• Graves Family Association DNA studies (Y, MT, and autosomal)
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/gfadna/ Graves Family Association Facebook DNA Study Group

How to Join

Just post a public comment here on the page if you would like to join the project!

Please feel free to use this sticker on your profile to indicate you are a Graves/Greaves Family Researcher. If you know your genealogy number, feel free to add the sticker with the genealogy number tagged where XX is.

{{One Name Study |name=Graves |category=Gen XX, Graves Name Study }}

If you don't know your genealogy number, use

{{One Name Study|name=Graves}}

Task List

The main tasks of this project are:

• Adding information from the Graves Family Association to Wikitree Profiles
• Identifying and sourcing any Unsourced Graves profiles
• Connecting any Unconnected Graves profiles
• Connecting existing Graves branches to one another (and to any variant names!)
• Utilizing Y-DNA test results for male Graves descendants to make connections and improve accuracy
• Utilizing mtDNA test results for female Graves descendants to make connections and improve accuracy
• Utilizing autosomal DNA test results for all Graves to make connections and improve accuracy
• Categorizing profiles currently in wikitree into the Graves Genealogies. See |Graves One Name Category.

Other fun tasks include:

• Creating profiles for famous Graves family members
  
• Improving Graves profiles with comprehensive biographies/sources.
  
• Putting a sticker on relevant Graves profiles:
  

{{One Name Study|name=Graves}}

This profile is part of the Graves Name Study.

If you would like to help out with any of these goals, please join us!