Wiki Stats - End February 2017

The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 March 2017) now stands at 6807 (previously 6789, 6765, 6754) an increase of 18 pages during the month.     Of these 1324 pages (was 1322, 1322, 1320) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning.     We currently have 2815 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 2391 begin with the letter "R".

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TRP Users

We ended February 2017 with 277 user accounts registered in TRP, with five new members successfully activating their accounts during the month. We welcome Donald, John, Patricia, Dee and Lori and we look forward to reading their contributions to our wiki. Dee is off to a great start having already contributed her AboutMe page.

DNA Group 7 Update

                  from Beverly Watson

Over the course of the last month, we have been making an effort to add to The Reeves Project the lineages of members of Group 7 of the Reeves DNA Project who are generally from families who descend from Edward Reavis who died in Northampton County, North Carolina and use the REAVIS variation of the surname. The primary source for pedigree information has been the Reavis Family website, where much of the site is based upon the research of Marie Reavis Hall which she published in the 1960s in a book titled The REAVIS Family.
With the pending addition of a new member to The Reeves Project as well as to the FtDNA Reeves Y-DNA Project, it’s come to our attention that some of that information included in the book has been found to be incorrect based upon new information discovered in the past 50 plus years since publication. The late Barb Lucas who was a prolific Reavis researcher had also found information to update some lines before her death.

For these reasons, if you are a member of the Reeves DNA Project whose DNA matches the Group 7 participants, please look over your own pedigree and any others you are familiar with that we have already detailed in the DNA structure of Group 7 and either make any necessary corrections to the person pages in your lineage or if you’re uncomfortable with using the Wiki syntax, just write to one of the admins giving them the correct information with sources to be added.

Another Milestone

Information on pages within TRP does get noticed. On 20 February we served up our eight millionth web page. OK we're not in the same league as Google or Amazon, but information you contribute here does get seen. If you’ve yet to add information about your Reeves ancestors, then you’re missing out on potential opportunities to be noticed and make contact with Reeves cousins. (We served up our 7,000,00th page at the end of April 2016 and 7.5M in early September 2016)