Happy Birthday TRP     or    Eight Years On

                  by Beverly Watson

It’s almost April Fool’s Day which marks the anniversary of The Reeves Project. On April 1st eight years ago the concept for this project and the resulting database began on the Reeves mailing list at Rootsweb.

It’s hard to believe so much time has passed but these last three months while it was offline for upgrading after being hacked have certainly made me realize how much I have come to depend on it for Reeves’ information. Even though I have done much of the research and have a copious amount of it saved on my personal computer, I enter every tidbit of documentation for Reeves’ families into TRP and it’s my primary Reeves reference. As of this week with TRP back online, it’s a great joy to be able to search the database again and begin to add all the data I’ve collected during the outage.

During these years we’ve been working our way from the original 13 American colonies down the eastern seaboard toward the Mississippi River and a little beyond in addition to continuing the large task of recording Reeves in Great Britain. But there’s still a tremendous amount of Reeves data yet to be discovered and included in TRP. Hopefully as more and more new members join, we’ll be able to forge on to the Pacific coast, Canada and the other myriad of places our Reeves are found while documenting Reeves in the British Isles and maybe someday finding our origins there.

Wiki Stats - End March 2018

The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 April 2018) was 7328 7238  ^{[see footnote]}  (previously 7179, 7176, 7171) an increase of 149 59 pages during the month. Of the total, 1471 pages (was 1442, 1442, 1442) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning. We currently have 2969 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 2545 begin with the letter "R". .
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It was great to be able to bring TRP back online for the community to access on 27 March. Your admins have been working in stealth mode throughout March and the vast majority of the new pages are down to the efforts of just two individuals, Beverly and Jonathan. This is all "real" new content for TRP and not dummy pages created for the sake of testing.

We are progressively opening TRP up to more and more of our existing members. Please keep an eye open during April for an e-mail from TRP127(at)TheReevesProject(dot)org inviting to provide a few details so we can get you back on-line. If you use a spam filter, please makse sure you white-list that email address.

TRP Users

We ended March 2018 with 308 user accounts registered in TRP, an increase of three. One account has been registered but not yet activated, one was a new administrative account and we welcome new community member Nancy Moore and look forward to reading her contributions to TRP.

DNA Group 19 Established

On 19 March, over on the Reeves DNA Project's Activity Feed, Beverly announced the formation of DNA Group 19 as follows

We’ve added new DNA Group 19 this month thanks to the results of John David Reeves’ Y-DNA test. His lineage traces back to Bennett Reeves, born in Charles County, Maryland in 1766 to Thomas Reeves and Mary Murphy. Bennett migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia around 1790. New Reeves DNA Project member Debra Rhoden is John David’s sister.

DNA Group 19 also includes George Reeves, husband of TRP member Nancy Reeves, who had previously been in the “ungrouped” results. George descends from John Reeves who died in Craven County, North Carolina in 1790 and who is believed to also be a descendant of the Reeves family of Charles and St. Mary’s counties in Maryland through Ubgate Reeves’ son John. No documentation has yet been found identifying John Reeves of Craven County’s parent but these DNA tests further confirm the family connection.

John David and George both have two more Reeves matches to individuals descending from the Maryland Reeves’ family but neither has joined the Reeves DNA Project as yet. Hopefully in the near future they will decide to join and can be added to Group 19.

Reeves DNA Project Update

In January we welcomed three new members to the project; James Reeves, David Reavis and John Reeves. January also saw one member leave the project. February was a little busier with five new members joining us, Ruth Adkins, Samuel Reeves, Don Revis, Steven Hood and Mary Trousdale and again we had one member leave. So far March has been quieter, with just three additions Diana Phipps, J Reeves and Eric Reeves.

Whilst March may have been quieter on the membership front, Beverly announced rather fittingly on 19 March the formation of our newest DNA Group; DNA Group 19. The group has two members from the Reeves DNA Project, but as Beverly points out, we know there are two further individual who have tested at FamilyTreeDNA (FtDNA) who also match the profile of this group. Unfortunately neither of those individuals are (yet) part of the Reeves DNA Project at FtDNA.

During the quarter, we’ve seen three new Y-DNA results as well as multiple upgrades and Family Finder results.

    Kit 827723 for James Reeves       added to ungrouped
    Kit 830743 for Samuel Reeves      added to ungrouped
    Kit 828936 for John D Reeves      added to DNA Group 19

The DNA Project Update for 4q 2017 is available here

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Foot Note

In preparing the TRP News for 1 May 2018, it was noticed that the number of new pages in March had been overstated due to a typographical error. The actual number of pages at the End of March 2018 was 7238 and not 7328 with the monthly increase actually 59 page and not 149 as previously reported. The graphic has yet to be updated.