Reeves DNA Project Updates - 4q 2017
At the end of December the project had 277 members, up from 266 at the end of September.
In October we welcomed three new members to the project, Phillip Reavis, Cynthia Holt and John Zinser. November was much busier, with nine expressions of interest and eight of those individuals completing their request for membership; Bobby Green, J Green, Sharon Greene, Olen Davisons, Karyn Davies, Brian Haley, Pamela Ready and Sylvia Dinkel. December was much quieter with just Bradley Reaves Jr joining and one member leaving our group.
As DNA Group Admins/Co-Admins we see a huge number of e-mails every week notifying us of new matches within the Reeves DNA Project. In this quarterly summary we aim to high-light the initial Y-DNA matches of our new group members. If we've mistakenly over-looked your results, please do let us know.
Olen Davison and Bobby Ray Green have both been matched with our DNA Group 04.
Whilst Bradley Reaves Jr joined the project during 4q2017, but his results didn't become available until 2018. However, since this summary is being written retrospectively, we can report that his Y-DNA result has strong matches with DNA Group 03
The Y-DNA results for Brian Haley were also added to the ungrouped pool during the quarter. Brian matches 65/67 an individual with the surname Reeves, but that individual is currently not a member of our project.
You may recall we also had a similar situation last quarter where a new Reeves DNA Project group member matched a non group member. Regardless of your Y-DNA results, if the surname by which you are known is Reeves or one of its variants, please do join our Y-DNA Project. We know some of you have Y-DNA results which suggest a stronger affinity with surnames other than R*v*(s) but we'd encourage you to join us in The Reeves DNA Project.
We'd also like you to come and join us at The Reeves Project, where you can share what you know about your R*v*(s) ancestors. It will often be that by exploring your family's FANs (friends, acquaintances and neighbours) that you'll find where the paths of your Reeves family and the family of your DNA affiliated surname crossed. Creating People Pages for your ancestors and adding what you've already discovered to the narrative there and adding gleaning pages for the documents they created and/or witnessed is a good way of doing this. Your contributions to TRP that show where and when the paths of those families crossed may also help break down brick walls of other researchers.