Welcome to the Slaven Genealogy Exchange.

Welcome to the Slaven Genealogy Exchange! Our purpose is to be a central location to collect and exchange information for Slaven, Slevin, Slavin, Slavey, and other surname variations. As a registered one-name study, the scope of this exchange is world wide. We hope there's something here for the beginning genealogist, the old hand, and the merely curious!

What's New?

The Y-DNA results pages (basic and expanded) are back, and with them, a new participant-- another John Slavin of County Tyrone/Highland County, Virginia descendant via Isaiah Slavens. Check out the results at the links above.

AncestryDNA joins the summer sale crowd!
Through August 20, Ancestry is offering their autosomal DNA test for $59. Order from Ancestry, or if you're an AncestryPrime member, you can order from Amazon and get it for the same price with free 2-day shipping!

FamilyTreeDNA is offering special sale pricing on both tests and updates this month!
Not all tests are on sale, but there's a nice discount on the basic Y-DNA test (37 markers) and the FamilyFinder (autosomal) DNA tests. Here's the scoop-- prices good through August 31.

Test	Reg. Price	Discount	Sale Price
Y37	$169	$40	$129
Family Finder	$79	$20	$59
Big Y 500	$649	$150	$499
Y12-37	$109	$40	$69
Y25-37	$59	$24	$35
Y37-67	$109	$40	$69
Y37-111	$228	$100	$128
Y67-111	$129	$40	$89

I've been tweaking the pages so they should load "securely" with the little padlock icon in your browser's address bar. The site doesn't use cookies, doesn't have any login or password required, it's just a simple site. If a page doesn't show the padlock, it's probably because the call to a photo or other graphic on the page isn't being made via https. I'll be looking for such pages over the next few weeks.

Older News.

Over 60 obituaries and death notices have been added or updated. Find links to them on the Obits page.

NEW ENTRIES IN "DNA COUSINS REGISTRY."
We have the first descendant of Richard Harve Slavey/Slaven in the "Slaven Cousins DNA Registry," the listing of folks who have taken an autosomal DNA test from one of the companies and are looking for matches. And we've added another descendant of John Slaven of Highland County, Virginia. I'd like to see more Richard Harve descendants test, along with descendants of John Slaven from Garrard County, Kentucky, and Robert Slaven of Gibson County, Indiana. If, as some suspect, all three lines connect back to William Slaven of Pennsylvania/North Carolina, it's quite possible that a few will show distant cousin matches across the family lines. While that's reachine the limits of autosomal testing, such matches are possible. I have a half-dozen matches with whom the common ancestor is John Slaven of Highland County, a similar distance into the past.

A BOXER'S BALDNESS CURE

What does a less successful boxer, brother of the famed Frank "Paddy" Slavin do at age 65 and too old for the ring? He markets a baldness cure. Thanks to Frank Slavin descendant Nancy Newham for sharing.

If you have taken an autosomal DNA test, like the AncestryDNA test at Ancestry (they reportedly sold 2.7 million of them during the Christmas 2017 season!), FamilyFinder at FamilyTreeDNA, the Ancestry test at 23andMe, or the DNA test at MyHeritage, please consider sharing your information with the Registry. The idea is that your unknown cousins may be considering taking a test, and if they find your entry here it could encourage them to test, and test at the same company! (While cross-company matching can be done by uploading results to GEDmatch, not everyone does so.

About this site

This is a private, noncommercial educational site for the free exchange of information. It is not associated with Ancestry, Rootsweb, MyFamily, or any commercial site. (That means no banner ads, no pop-up or pop-under windows, no unsolicited email!)

All content on this site is believed to be compliant with U.S. copyright law and Fair Use provisions.

Because the site is an outgrowth of my personal research, it's tilted towards the Slavens surname. But that's easily fixed-- contribute your Slavin, Slevin, etc. data for the site! Here are some of the types of information that you can share:

Census transcriptions Census returns can be a gold mine of information for both the beginning and the experienced researcher, but many people don't have easy access to films. Finding your family in a transcription here makes requesting a film or a lookup much more worthwhile, so won't you share? We need people who have access to their state's Soundex indexes and are willing to transcribe the Slaven(s), Slavin, Slevin, etc. entries! It's S415 and you'll see about 20 Sullivans for each Slaven.

Biographies and reminiscences Share the bios from county history books, reminiscences from ancestors, old family letters, your own memories, the family history that was written for a reunion decades ago...

Obituaries Transcriptions of obituaries and death notices.

Photographs Share family photos, or photos of grave sites. Photos continue to be the most popular items on the site.

Links Do you have or know of a family-related site? Does a GenWeb county site offer information on a branch of the family? Share it here!

Other help! Other information that doesn't fit the categories above is also welcome.

All corrections, suggestions, criticisms, etc. are welcome too! Be sure to put Slaven, Slavin, and something meaningful in the subject line-- I get tons of spam so an email with no subject or "Hi!" will probably be deleted unread!

Larry Slavens
7018 Airline Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50322

iarooster@earthlink.net