Gina (Pocock) Jarvi

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Gina (Pocock) Jarvi is a Guide on the US Black Heritage Project PATH.

Gina (Pocock) Jarvi is a graduate of the USBH Heritage Exchange Track on the PATH.

Gina has participated in the USBH Connecting Challenge.

Biography

Gina (Pocock) Jarvi has Scottish Ancestors.

Gina (Pocock) Jarvi has English ancestors.

Gina (Pocock) Jarvi has Irish ancestors.

Family Names

• Paternal: Pocock, Bailey, Skellenger, Finley, Bean, Bayne, Bruce, Smith
• Maternal: Lobbin/Lobban, Fitzgerald, O'Brien, Shortell

My father gave me my first look into our family history with a Pocock Family Tree that had been created by a cousin on one of the branches of a rather large tree that went back to the 1700's.

I joined WikiTree on 1 Jan 2018 and am still transferring my tree here. I love the collaborative nature of this platform and the emphasis on sourcing and categorization.

I am a volunteer coordinator with the US Black Heritage Project. I am a Guide on the Path and I oversee large scale slavery projects, such as Plantations, Slave Ship Manifests, and The American Colonization Society/Emigrants to Liberia.

In 2022, I started a One Place Study about the African-American city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by the formerly enslaved of Joseph and Jefferson Davis. We've added nearly 800 former residents!

My Story
I was born in 1956 to two theater people, A.J. Pocock and Peggy Lobbin. I was raised in New York City, attended a French immersion elementary school through 8th grade. (Oui, je parle Français.) I graduated from high school in 1974 and attended Ithaca College. I spent one year abroad in London, UK and graduated in 1978.

Eventually I moved to Los Angeles where I worked for a women's health organization before returning to school to study Art and Communications at UC San Diego. I went on to earn my teaching license and became very aquainted with computers. From 1984-1986 I taught computer skills to very young children from Kindergarten thru sixth grade using Seymor Pappert's Turtle language.

Between 1988 and 1991, I moved to the Twin Cities, got married, and had a child. I continued teaching in a variety of disciplines and age groups and eventually, co-founded a non-profit arts organization with my cousin, in memory of her son, who died on Mother's Day 1994 at the age of 24.

I am currently retired and grateful to be a volunteer with the US Black Heritage Project. Genealogy is a powerful tool for healing ancestral wounds. My ancestors brought me here, and I feel a deep responsibility to honor their journeys, and to make my own worth remembering.

DNA Confirmation

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal 23andMe test match between Gina (Pocock) Jarvi and Margaret Carter, her 3rd cousin. Their most-recent common ancestors are Luther Skellenger and Romenta Pasco, the great great grandparents of both Gina (Pocock) Jarvi and Margaret Carter. Predicted relationship from 23andMe: 3rd cousins, based on sharing 16.7 cM cM (0.78% X-Chromosome DNA ~3.12%% DNA shared) across 4 segments.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Gina (Pocock) Jarvi and Fred Lobbin her uncle. Their most-recent common ancestor is Margaret Lobbin Pocock the mother of Gina (Pocock) Jarvi and sister of Fred Lobbin. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Uncle, is based on sharing 1,158 cM across 32 segments. My maternal haplogroup is H1h.

Digital Afterlife Instructions
1. Upon my death, my family may manage our family profiles where I act as PM in any way they see fit, as long as it is in line with the Honor Code and preserves the privacy of living people.

1. Matthew Jarvi
2. Anne Costa
   

2. As an active member of the US Black Heritage Project, all of the profiles that are not connected to my family, and the larger projects I manage, should be turned over to the project, if they aren't already.

Pages I often use in my work:

1. African-American Genealogy Resources
2. Slavery, United States
3. WikiTree Source Library
4. Researching The Enslaved
5. Research Holding Page for USBH
6. 15 for 15 Mission Tracker

Gina (Pocock) Jarvi achieved the 15 For 15 award for completing 15 missions in our 2023 15 For 15 Challenge.

WikiTree Day Attendee: 2023

WikiTree Day Attendee: 2022

Sources

• "Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCC5-GZ7 : 6 May 2014), Gina Mae Pocock Jarvi in entry for Matthew James Jarvi, 24 Aug 1991; from "Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2004); citing Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis.
• First-hand information. Entered by Gina Pocock on July 1, 2020. Revised May 8, 2021.