Yeah Chris I get excited about it. I've no idea if there is any truth to it but it's been written the first Graves arrived in England in 1066 with William. His name was supposedly Hugh de Greave or Grieves. Could be totally erroneous but fun to think about
anyway.
Some of those old legends/ stories clearly become false but sometimes they have a little basis in fact. I'm sure genetics will sort all this out eventually.?
Anyway I appreciate you guys and the truths eventually uncovered by science.?
BTW- I've no idea what 90% of your studies mean but I'm getting there.
Sincerely
Roy S. Graves
Ps- my family is now located in Alabama but we've only been here for about 150 years. We may be related to a Capt Thomas Graves who arrived in Jamestown in 1608. That may not be the gospel truth but it is a goal of both Cynthia
Sexton and myself to find out. ??
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After Jim's results came in Iain shared two things. One was to Jim and myself (I hope you don't mind my sharing this Jim):
"Your relationship with the Graves and Sexton group is around 1000 years ago (give or take a few centuries). The pattern of development since S6881 (about 1400 years ago) is suggestive
of a post-Roman but pre-Norman origin. It's too early to say you descend from the "Anglo-Saxon" invaders, but that would be a direction in which we would want to explore."
And then to me today:
"The range of ages is now starting to be constrained enough to almost rule out certain possibilities. It's now starting to look less likely that your family has a Roman origin
or a Norman origin. The range of ages most likely brackets somewhere between the post-Roman ("Anglo-Saxon") migration and that Danelaw."
I don't know if you guys get excited about this stuff, but I do. It really helps that we might be able to speculate when our common ancestor made it to England and what group he came with.
It's nice to get some concrete idea of how long we've been in England (though some of us have subsequently left). Hopefully, this will give you something to ponder as we move into the new year. Wishing you all a happy New Year and I hope I'll have more news
soon.
Chris
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