Wiki Stats - End September 2025
The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 October 2025) now stands at 14846 (previously 14842, 14799, 14790, 14784), an increase of just 4 pages during September. Of the total, 3045 pages (was 3045, 3040, 3039) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning. We currently have 6666 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 6138 begin with the letter "R".Community members should log in to see more.
TRP Users
During September we have received five new enquiries about membership of TRP. We ended the month with 594 user accounts registered in TRP, an increase of four over the previous month. We had three users successfully activated their account during September and we're pleased to welcome Mona, Matthew and Erin to the TRP Community. At the time of writing only Mona has created an AboutMe Page and we'd encourage Matthew and Erin to take a look at First Steps - Part 2 for a reminder.If you are having issues activating your account or have simply lost interest, 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 or have subsequently decided you don't want to join our community. If you are not yet a member and would like to contribute to our community, please see our About Us page to find out a little more about TRP and then please complete our Join Us form to start the membership enrolment process.
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 (small) name label badge; so your first name plus the surname by which you are presently known (or at least the surname initial) would generally be a good choice. You'll find links to the remainder of the our six part First Steps as part of the FAQ - First Steps. Those same First Steps are also a great refresher for anybody returning to The Reeves Project after a period away.
Reeves DNA Project Update - 3q2025
There have been significant changes in the administration of the Reeves DNA Project at FtDNA during the third quarter of 2025. Following the death of Beverly Watson which Barry Reeves announced to the Activity Feed at FtDNA on 07 August 2025, administrative privileges were withdrawn from her FtDNA account. As of 30 September 2025 her mt-DNA and autosomal results remain part of the Reeves DNA Project at FtDNA and would now be controlled by those who have inherited her digital assets.We are grateful to Jonathan Reeves who has agreed to step up and become one of the co-admins of the Reeves DNA project at FtDNA. Jonathan has been a prolific contributor and project admin at The Reeves Project wiki for a number of years. Members of the Reeves DNA Project at FtDNA were sent an automatic notification email by FtDNA announcing his appointment as a new group admin on 07 August 2025.
We've seen three new members join the Reeves DNA Project at FtDNA during the third quarter of 2025. The current membership now stands at 466 (was 463) (as of 30 September 2025). Both July and August were very quiet but during September we were joined by John, Timothy and Catherine.
Through the past quarter we've seen no new sets of Y-DNA test results to share with the Project, but there have been two Y111 matches for existing project members. One set are known to belong to a member of our DNA Group XX and the others are suspected to also belong to a DNA Group XX member.
Additionally we've see six notifications of Y-67 matches and 23 notifications of Y-37 matches. The six Y-67 matches related to three individuals, one from DNA Group 16, one from DNA Group XX and one for somebody we suspect is a descendant of a female Reeves ancestor. We'd be grateful if they would confirm this by reviewing DNA Group XX's home page within TRP and then completing a DNA Donor Permission / Consent form so we can formally assign them to our DNA Group XX - thank you.
We've seen no new Family Finder results added for an existing member of our project and two sets of results from a new mt-DNA donor during the past quarter. Existing project members who have take a mt-DNA test have also continued to see a steady stream of match notification emails including 38 "mtfull" notifications during September alone.
If you missed last quarter's summary, the DNA Project Update for 2q2025 is available here.