Wiki Stats - End November 2016

The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 December 2016) now stands at 6754 (previously 6743, 6735, 6734) an increase of 11 pages during the month.     Of these 1320 pages (was 1319, 1319, 1319) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning.     We currently have 2799 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 2375 begin with the letter "R".

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TRP Users

We ended November with 260 user accounts registered in TRP, with four new members activating their accounts during the month. We welcome Terry, Kelly, Claire and Clyde and look forward to seeing their contributions to our wiki.

More DNA Success

                  by Beverly Watson

Although he hasn’t joined The Reeves Project to date, the test results for William Selah Reeve, a new member of the Reeves DNA Project, have clarified questions regarding the possible family connections for two early Reeve settlers to Long Island, New York. A 1658 Long Island deposition told the interesting story of a group of adventurers who came to the Chowan country of North Carolina from the Caribbean islands known as the Summer Isles in 1636 and then sailed further up the Atlantic coast to Long Island where they permanently settled. The initial group included a James Reeve and while in North Carolina they met with another group which included a Thomas Reeve. Both parties settled in Long Island where James and Thomas Reeve lived the rest of their lives. Although there was speculation that they were brothers, no family connection has ever been proven until now. The new member of the Reeves DNA Project, William Selah Reeve, descends from James Reeve and his DNA is a match to that of descendants of Thomas Reeve, including Charles S Reeves and Richard A Reeves. Supplementing traditional research with DNA testing has again yielded a genealogical success.

Read more about these early settlers to Long Island in the blog post A Tale of Adventuring in Chowan Country