-25- April 1998 ISSN 0146-0269 Volume 21, Number 122 THE GRAVES FAMILY NEWSLETTER Official Publication of the Graves Family Association For all families of Graves, Greaves, Grave, and other spelling variations everywhere Member and a former trustee, died in CONTENTS Norwood, Mass. 6 Dec. 1997 at the age of 84. Graves Family News...........................25 Mrs. Crane was born in Granville, Mass. 26 Graves Family Association Web Site..25 July 1913, the daughter of Merle D. and Clara Trip to England and Ireland in May Cooley (Stevenson) Graves. She was educated 1999................................................26 at the Emma Willard School and Vassar Graves List on the Internet .................27 College, and in 1936 she married the late Standards for Sound Genealogical Arthur Eaton Crane. Mr. Crane was active in Research.........................................27 Crane and Company, based in Dalton, one of Standards for Use of Technology in the country's oldest paper-making firms. Genealogical Research...................27 Mrs. Crane served as a trustee 1987-89. Address Changes ...............................28 She derived her interest in genealogy from her Membership Directory Updates ..........29 mother, a regent of the Daughters of the Descendants of Richard Graves and American Revolution. Mrs. Crane was a Isabel ------ of Lilling, Yorkshire, descendant of John Howland of the England...........................................29 Mayflower, and was the subject of a profile in Descendants of John Grave of Thorne, NEXUS 4 (1987): 58. Yorkshire & Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Mrs. Crane is survived by three sons and England...........................................31 Descendants of William Grave and two daughters, eight grandchildren, and nine Elizabeth ------ of Thorganby & great-grandchildren, to all of whom the Cottingwith, Yorkshire, England ......33 Society sends it deepest condolences. Questions and Information..................34 (This obituary was written by David Curtis Ancestor Chart of Terry Lyn Goodwin Dearborn, F.A.S.G., and published on p. 73, of MO ..............................................37 NEHGS Nexus, March-April 1998.) Descendants of John Sanders Graves and Mary Susannah Wooton of MD & GRAVES FAMILY ASSOCIATION WEB KY ...................................................45 SITE The Internet Web Site of the Graves Family GRAVES FAMILY NEWS Association is at http://www.gravesfa.org. There have been many changes and additions Cooley (Graves) Crane of Dalton, to this since earlier this year. Check it out if Westwood, and Osterville, Mass., a New you have access to the Internet. England Historic Genealogical Society Life -26- We also need someone to help with this site There is also a list of volunteer or take the responsibility for it. It is presently opportunities on the web site, for those who being managed by Kenneth V. Graves. want to help. The additions that are probably of greatest interest to most people are the genealogies that TRIP TO ENGLAND AND IRELAND IN are gradually being added. There is a MAY 1999 complete list on the site of all Graves/Greaves ancestors that are presently known. For an In May 1999 (next Spring) the Graves increasing number of the ancestors on the list, Family Association will be conducting a trip to all you have to do is click on the name of the England and Ireland. This will consist of a ancestor and a link will take you directly to the combination of expertly guided tours of genealogy for that ancestor. Graves/Greaves homes and towns, historic places and scenic sights, and visits with local family members. Memberships: The tour of England will be the main Regular (U.S. & Canada) $20/year Other countries (air mail) $30/year attraction, since the origin of all the Graves- Sustaining (U.S. & Canada) $40/year Greaves families of both Ireland and England Other countries (air mail) $50/year is the area of southern Yorkshire and the Life (U.S./Canada, 62 and older) $600 one time northern parts of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Foreign memberships must be paid by money Nottinghamshire. This will be about 10 days, order in U.S. dollars. All back issues (1976- and places we will be visiting will probably present) are available at current price. include Mickleton in Gloucestershire, Moseley Newsletter only available to individuals as part of in Worcestershire, various places in Yorkshire, Graves Family Association membership. No Bakewell & Beeley in Derbyshire, Horbling, charge for queries. Drayton & Kirkton in Lincolnshire, Hertford in Hertfordshire, Nazeing in Essex, and Published by: THE GRAVES FAMILY ASSOCIATION London. 261 South St., Wrentham, MA 02093 We hope to have noted expert George Internet Home Page: http://www.gravesfa.org Redmonds escort us in Yorkshire again. We also hope to have two evenings where family Newsletter Editor: Kenneth Vance Graves 261 South St., Wrentham, MA 02093 members from the local area gather with us. (508)384-8084 The tour of Ireland will be an option. It will Internet: [email protected] be several days, and will include Waterford, Wexford, Dublin and Meath, and possibly Treasurer: Elaine Tobias, Overland Park, KS Director, On-line Computer Help: H. W. (“Bud”) Limerick. It will also probably include Tyrone Graves, Veradale, WA and Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Safety Internet: [email protected] (as well as enjoyment) will be an important Director (Temporary), Internet Home Page: consideration, and no area that is felt to pose Kenneth Vance Graves any safety problems will be included. Graves Online List Manager: Marjorie Ferris, Rialto, CA More information will be provided as soon Internet: [email protected] as the tour is finalized. Exact cost has not yet Research Coordinators been established, but it was $2375 per person Graves of Cambridgeshire, England: Nedra double occupancy plus airfare for the 1995 trip Dickman Brill, CG, 2410 NE 58th Ave., Portland, OR 97213-4002 to England, and that part of the trip will Internet: [email protected] probably be similar in cost in 1999. To give us a good idea of who is seriously © Graves Family Association, 1998 considering going, we need your tentative -27- commitment and a $50 per person deposit • Test every hypothesis or theory against as soon as possible. If the trip is cancelled by credible evidence and reject those that are us for any reason, your deposit will be not supported by the evidence. returned in full. • Seek original records, or reproduced Because we do not yet (as of April 22) have images of them when there is reasonable the minimum number for the tour, the deadline assurance that they have not been altered, (originally April 30) is being extended. If we as the basis for their research conclusions. do not have enough indication of interest by • Use compilations, communications, and late May, the tour will either be changed or published works, whether paper or cancelled. Let us know if you are interested! electronic, primarily for their value as guides to locating the original records. • State something as a fact only when it is GRAVES LIST ON THE INTERNET supported by convincing evidence and identify the evidence when communicating In case you have access to the Internet and a fact to others. don't already know about the Graves online • Limit with words like "probable" or mailing list, I highly recommend it. This list is "possible" any statement that is based on for the purpose of asking questions and less than convincing evidence and state the sharing information on Graves families. This reasons for concluding that it is probable is a forum in which every e-mail message that or possible. is sent to the list is automatically resent to • Avoid misleading other researchers by every person on the list. To subscribe, send a either intentionally or carelessly message with the word subscribe as the only distributing or publishing inaccurate word in the body of the message to GRAVES- information. [email protected]. The title of the • State carefully and honestly the results of message can be anything, since it will not be their own research and acknowledge all read. use of other researchers' work. This list is being managed in an outstanding • Recognize the collegial nature of manner by GFA member Marjorie Beth genealogical research by making their ("Marge") Ferris of Rialto, CA. Her e-mail work available to others through address is [email protected]. Under Marge's publication, or by placing copies in management, the list has become quite active, appropriate libraries or repositories, and by with much helpful information. welcoming critical comment. • Consider with open minds new evidence or STANDARDS FOR SOUND the comments of others on their work and GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH the conclusions they have reached. Recommended by the National Genealogical Copyright 1997 by National Genealogical Society. Permission is granted to copy or publish this material, Society provided it is reproduced in it entirety, including this notice. (This and the next article were published in NGSQ, vol. 86, no. 1, March 1998, pp. 50-51.) STANDARDS FOR USE OF Remembering always that they are engaged TECHNOLOGY IN GENEALOGICAL in a quest for truth, family history researchers RESEARCH consistently -- • Record the source for each item of Recommended by the National Genealogical information they collect. Society -28- Mindful that computers are tools, • Accept that technology has not changed genealogists take full responsibility for the the principles of genealogical research, results of their work, and therefore they -- only some of the procedures. • Learn the capabilities and limits of their equipment and software and use them only Copyright 1997 by National Genealogical Society. when they are the most appropriate tools Permission is granted to copy or publish this material, for a purpose. provided it is reproduced in it entirety, including this notice. • Refuse to let computer software automatically embellish their work. ADDRESS CHANGES • Treat compiled information from online sources or digital databases like that from Mrs. Kay Lee W. Gunn of Dallas, TX, other published sources: useful primarily descended from Capt.