Wiki Stats - End September 2020
The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 October 2020) now stands at 10500 (previously 10365, 10226, 10104) an increase of 135 pages during the month. Of the total, 2012 pages (was 1968, 1938, 1897) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning. We currently have 4472 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 4010 begin with the letter "R".Community members should log in to see more.
TRP Users
We ended September 2020 with 448 user accounts registered in TRP, an increase of zero. However, this masks the fact that we actually added five new user accounts and also removed five accounts which had never been activated by the requesting user. We had five users successfully activated their accounts during the past month. We welcome to our community David Boone, Diane Butcher, Lamar Traylor, Tim Reaves and Bev Parker. Three of you have created a real name for yourself, thank you, and Lamar has created an AboutMe page and dropped by the talk page to say "Hi".Whether you joined TRP recently or a while ago, if you have yet to do so, please set a meaningful name for yourself as described in First Steps - Part 1. It isn't difficult and only takes a couple of minutes to do. If it helps, think of it as a name label badge; so your first name plus surname (or at least surname initial) would generally be a good choice.
If you have already started the enrolment process and are having issues, please do let us know. Please contact New User Admin by sending an email to TRP123 (at) TheReevesProject (dot) org if you're stuck and need help. If you are not yet a member and would like to contribute to our community, please complete our Join Us form to start the membership enrolment process.
Hints and Tips
Will be back next month, when we won't have a DNA Project quarterly update to share here.Reeves DNA Project Quarterly Update
The third quarter of 2020 has seen seven new members join the Reeves DNA Project, taking the total membership at the end of September to 367.In July we welcomed Brian & Ronald, whose kits are being managed by Louise and Linda respectively. August saw three new members; Yvonne who is managing her father George's results, Cheryl and Sam. Thus far in September we have two additional members; Hatte who is managing her cousin Robert's kit and Nanalee who is managing her son Ken's kit. As far as I'm able to ascertain only one of these seven new members is also a TRP community member.
During the past quarter we've received the results for six new Y-DNA Donor members and as previously announced in July formed a new DNA Group 21.
Kit 397669 for RR added to DNA Group 21
Kit 406454 for KC added to DNA Group 06A
Kit 418554 for BR added to DNA Group 21
Kit 869570 for SH presently ungrouped
Kit 935798 for RW added to DNA Group 07
Kit 937997 for George C Reeves added to DNA Group 04 TRP is grateful to Yvonne for providing DNA Donor Consent on behalf of her father. We would encourage the other five individuals or their representatives to make contact and allow us to identify them within TRP.We've seen new Family Finder results for two existing members and no new mt-DNA results for Reeves DNA Project members during the past quarter.
As Beverly noted when she created our latest DNA Group 21, the individuals concerned didn't have usual variants of the surname REEVES. However we were assured that there were well documented instances of the Donor's surnames mutating into Reeve/Reeves. It is disappointing to note that neither member of this new group (nor their kit managers) have yet joined us at TRP and contributed People Pages showing this surname's mutation.
If you missed last quarter's summary the DNA Project Update for 2q2020 is available here.