Rob Graham
Honor Code SignatorySigned 11 Nov 2018 | 10,752 contributions | 360 thank-yous | 880 connections
Signed 11 Nov 2018 | 10,752 contributions | 360 thank-yous | 880 connections
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Mr. Rob W. Graham
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Brother of
[private sister (1940s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Father of
Robert Graham and Leah (Graham) Taylor
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Biography
Rob Graham is a member of Clan Graham.
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Rob Graham participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 32 connections.
Rob Graham participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2020 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Rob Graham participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2021 Connect-a-Thon, and added 42 connections.
Rob Graham participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2022 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 166 previously unsourced profiles.
Rob Graham participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 56 connections.
Rob Graham participated with Seamróga agus Fòghnain during the 2023 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to some previously unsourced profiles.
Rob Graham is a graduate of the Scotland Tartan Trail III.
Robert Wallace Graham[1] was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania on February 7, 1945[1] son to Mary Louise (Malu) Sesler and Horace Reynolds Graham Jr.[2]. Following his father's discharge from the U.S. Navy Rob and his Mother relocated to Maria Elena, Chile to join his father who had taken employment as a Chemical Engineer at Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate Company, partly owned by his father,Horace Graham Sr. (1886-1954), who was the company's president. (Anglo-Lautaro was nationalized by Chile and became Anglo-Chile Nitrate then privatized and became Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) which survives to the present - 2018 - as a primary supplier of Lithium).
Rob spent the next 8 years living in the little mining town, interrupted by occasional returns to the United States to visit Grandparents, and fondly remembered Christmas vacations to his Grandfather Horace's fishing camp on the Tolten River in Catrico province, Chile.[3]
In 1953, Rob and family relocated back to the United States, ultimately settling in Memphis, Tennessee. Rob graduated from Memphis University School in 1963 [4] and attended the University of Colorado until 1966.[3]
In the fall of 1966, Rob enlisted in the United States Navy, most of the first two years of which was spent on training (Electronics Technician A, B, and C schools, Naval Nuclear Power School [5]). He served for one year aboard the USS Northampton (CC1) and three years aboard the USS Hartley (DE1029) where he served as the lead electronics technician from September 1969 until June of 1972 when the Hartley was decommissioned. He was awarded the
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On October 10, 1970 Rob married Doreen Slayton in Newport, Rhode Island.[7] Their son Robert Eric Graham was born on July 7th, 1971 in Newport, Rhode Island [8] and daughter Leah Charise Graham was born in 1976 in Stanford, California,[9]
From September 1972 until March of 1973 Rob worked for DeHart Marine Electronics in Memphis Tennesse, meeting towboats on the Mississippi River to repair their radio, radar or sonar. From March of 1973 until March 1997, when it was acquired by Honeywell, Rob worked for Measurex Corporation. During the course of his employment with Measurex, Rob lived inMonroe, Louisiana (1973-1974) Chester, Virginia (1974-1976), Cupertino, California (1975-1976), West Monroe, Louisiana (1977-1980), Stone Mountain, Ga. (1990-82), and Lawrenceville, Ga (1983-2000). After the 1997 acquisition, Rob continued to work for Honeywell. Rob retired from Honeywell in August of 2015 while living in Temple, Georgia (2000-2017). In the fall of 2017, Rob and his wife relocated to Killen, Alabama (next door to Florence, Ala) on the Tennessee River. [3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Birth Certificate of Robert Wallace Graham, File No. 0190030-45, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania > Department of Health > Vital Records > Date Filed: 02-17-1945, Date of Birth 02-07-1945, Personal copy in the files of Rob Graham
- ↑ Morning Herald, February 8, 1945, Uniontown Pa. page 2 Title: Ensign Grahams Have Package From Stork - see scanned image Rob's Birth Announcement
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 personal recollections of Rob Graham
- ↑ Memphis University School Yearbook, Vol VII, 1963: Memphis University School, 1963
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Navy Discharge Papers (DD-214) - 30 Jun 1972 in the personal files of Rob Graham see the scanned pdf document Rob's Navy discharge papers ( DD-214 )
- ↑ Scanned copy of Marriage Certificate - State of Rhode Island - BK 10 PG 124 filed 10-13-1970 in the files of Rob Graham
- ↑ Copy of Certificate of Birth, State of Rhode Island, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island>Filing date July 12, 1971, In the files of Rob Graham. See scanned image Robert Eric Graham's Birth Certificate
- ↑ Certificate of Live Birth, State of California - Department of Health, Local Registration District and Certificate Number 4300 -11493 In the files of Rob Graham. See scanned image Leah's Birth Certificate
Advance Directive
In the event of my death, I nominate my daughter, Leah Charise Graham to assume management of the profiles for which I may be manager at the time. In the event that she is unable or unwilling, I desire that the Wikitree team assume management of the profiles for which I may be manager at the time. It is my desire that the profiles of living people should not be deleted.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Rob or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rob:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Rob or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rob:
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Rob:
- Rob Graham is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 22, 2022.
- Rob Graham is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 16, 2021.
- Meet our Members: Rob Graham Sep 14, 2021.
- Rob Graham is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 23, 2019.
- Rob Graham is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 12, 2018.
Featured National Park champion connections: Rob is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 16 degrees from George Catlin, 18 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 26 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 16 degrees from George Grinnell, 26 degrees from Anton Kröller, 16 degrees from Stephen Mather, 26 degrees from Kara McKean, 17 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 27 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Pennsylvania, Graham Name Study | Clan Graham | En | Es-1
It is once again time for our annual Scotland Project check-in. Please respond within the next three weeks to let us know:
•If you would like to continue as a project member •If you are happy with your current teams or would you like to join a different team •How much time per month (on average) you spend working on Scottish profiles •Anything you’d like the Scotland Project to do more of in the future
You can respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. If we don’t hear from you within the next three weeks we’ll assume your interests have changed or you are no longer able to participate in the Scotland Project at this time, and your badge will be removed. If your circumstances change later you will be welcome to reapply for membership.
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I would like to remain a Scotland Project team member and would be quite happy to continue as Dumfriesshire team lead, Clan Graham team lead and as a Tartan Trail guide. I spend at least 70 hrs. a month on Scottish profiles.
Rob Graham
Phew, that's a relief! Thank you for all the work you do for the Scotland Project.
Sheena
Connect-a-Thon|team=Team Twisted Thistles|year=2023|sources=56
Source-a-Thon|team=Team Twisted Thistles|year=2022|sources=166
It's time for our annual Scotland Project check-in!
This year we are hoping to learn what our membership would like to accomplish over the next 12 months. In case you aren't aware, this year is WikiTree's ""Year of Connections"" and the Project's leadership would like to contribute to this in as many ways as possible.
We would appreciate it if you would share your thoughts and ideas with us on how we can accomplish this goal. We would also appreciate it if you would provide some feedback on our existing goals, including:
We continue to communicate with our Project members via Google Group (official) and Discord (unofficial), as well as G2G. You may also reach out to any of the Project leaders via WikiTree's internal messaging system at any time.
Thank you for all you do to help the Scotland Project become a knowledge hub for Scottish genealogical research! We wish you all the best in 2022!
Sincerely, Amy Gilpin on behalf of the Scotland Project Leaders
I am team lead for the Dumfriesshire regional team, and for the Clan Graham team. I completed Level 3 of the Tartan Trail last spring. Maybe Next year I'll be brave enough to tackle the next level. I try to spend most of my time working on Dumfriesshire's unsourced profiles and keep an eye out for those with large families. For those, I try to find at least one source, and if the yearly connectathon has passed, I Add children and look for their children. Usually, I will look for sources for spouses and parents as well. I work off both unsourced lists (project and DD) and sometimes off the unconnected lists. One technique I use to find all the children is to use ScotlandsPeople, Old Parish registers. I enter the surname, leave the forename blank, select Both for gender, and a wide time range around the marriage or an estimated marriage, and enter the parent names, and the county, sometimes also the parish. The search then gives me all the children in that time range for those parents. Sometimes one must try different search criteria to get the surname variants - Fuzzy matching seems normally to work best. I would think once a month would be the most often a Newsletter would be needed, even once per quarter would be Ok.
edited by Rob Graham
Here's your sticker code for the January 2022 connect a thon. Just add the curly brackets {{ }} on the ends: Connect-a-Thon|team=The Twisted Thistles|year=2022|profiles=83|extra=Thanks for participating in the January thon!
Sarah
Best wishes Chris
It’s time for a Project check-in!
Scotland Project Leaders check in with you at least once a year to see how you are doing. With the changes happening around the world, we understand that life is hectic right now.
What are you planning to work on for the Scotland Project this year? Are you happy with the team(s) you part of, or would you like to make some changes?
This time round, we’re also looking for feedback on the use of Google Group and Discord. Do you use one or both of these? If you don’t use either of them, what is the best way to ensure you receive Project communications? If you would like to join us on Google Group or Discord, let us know in your response.
I plan to continue working on unsourced profiles and GEDCom cleanup. I also spent some time untangling some Graham profiles, mostly Eskdalemuire and Canonbie folk 1600 -1780 timeframe, I worked also on my Crawford and Jeffreys family and their relatives. Recently I worked on the Duncansons (not relatives, but was looking for something useful to do) in the Gedcom cleanup list on the Gedcom Project page, and plan to work on the rest of the list as I complete the current bunch.
I can't really say I use the Google group, although I do read the email, which seems mostly to deal with Team lead changes and Tartan Trail Graduates. I am totally unfamiliar with Discord, your comment the first I've seen the name. I have not heard at all from team leads, which is ok, I'm pretty self-motivated. I would also be interested in working on the Dumfries-shire geographical project. I don't know if I am qualified enough to act as a team lead on a sub-project, but with a bit of coaching would be willing to help out that way as well. I am not a Tartan Trail graduate or on the trail, but could stand to learn more about Scotland's history and geography, and there's always more to learn about finding sources. Regards, Rob Regards, Rob
Thank you for all your efforts in improving Scottish Profiles :) It is appreciated very much!
(edited to correct spelling)
edited by Amy (Crawford) Gilpin
Thanks for participating in the 2020 Source a Thon with Team Twisted Thistles! Here is a sticker code, just add the curly brackets.
Source-a-Thon|team=Team Twisted Thistles|year=2020|sources=16
Best Regards,
Sarah and Bobbie, Twisted Thistles Team Captains
Thank you for your participation in October 2020’s Source-a-thon. Your contributions helped us to clear over 57,000 profiles that needed sourcing. This makes our Shared Tree all that much better.
Keep up the great work!
Pippin Sheppard WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Just stopping by to say thank you for all the work you've done on Scottish profiles. It's very appreciated :)
~ Amy
Thanks for all the work you accomplished during our Connect-A-Thon 2020. It is amazing how many more profiles were created and added to our Shared Tree over the weekend. We are proud of your efforts.
Kind regards,
Pippin Sheppard ~ WikiTree’s Appreciation Team
Thank you so much for participating with the Twisted Thistles during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon! Here is a sticker code you can put on your profile, just add the double curly brackets {{ }} at both ends.
Connect-a-Thon|team=Team Twisted Thistles|year=2020|profiles=32
Cheers,
Sarah and Bobbie
As a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.
We also have our team Chat page posted here.
My name is Sarah and I’m the Project Coordinator for the Scotland Project. As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
Sarah Mason, Scotland PC
I would be glad to continue working on the Scotland Project. I have primarily worked on my family tree [Graham, Jeffreys, Crawford...] but would be glad to assist with cleanup and/or documentation of any that need help. Rob Graham
Ive added the Scottish Clans Project badge to your profile. If you click on the badge it will take you to the full list of our members. Ive also added your name to our members interest page. Here you can let others know what you are working on.
Thanks for joining, enjoy and good luck with your research.
Maria
Pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, thus coordinating with others is essential.
The _Clans Scottish Clans Project seems to fit your Graham ancestors. Leader is Maria Maxwell. Click the link to read how to join.
Or use the Pre-1700 Projects list, located at the top of your page, 4th topic on right, under <Find> and <Projects>.
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