About The Owners Gregory M. Shreve About-Greg-Shreve-Web-Portrait.jpg Biography Greg Shreve was born in Germany, the son of a career military man. Shreve was a quintessential "army brat," living in 21 different locations in his first eighteen years. His early years were spent in various locations in the United States (Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Bliss, Texas) and Germany (including Wiesbaden, Wertheim, Worms am Rhein and Hanau). The one constant in this wandering life was Grandma and Grandpa Shreve and their farm house on the Laurel Branch of the Middle Fork River in Randolph County, West Virginia. The farm, located between the small towns of Mill Creek and Adolph where the road to Cassity forks off, was Shreve's only real home for many years. It was in this farmhouse, in discussions with his beloved grandmother Cora Fincham Shreve, that a life-long love of genealogy and family history was conceived. Greg descends from the line of Thomas Sheriff's son Daniel, tracing his ancestry through the line of William Shreve and Freelove Dyer of Loudon County, Virginia. In 1997, Shreve and his wife, Joan Nelson Shreve, started a national electronic mailing list for Shreve family genealogy. This list now numbers over four hundred members. The list was associated with a well-known and popular Shreve Family website, also launched in 1997 (formerly at: http://shreve.mcls.kent.edu/ShreveFamily/ShreveHome.htm). After having been been offline for several years, the pair launched a new version of the site on January 10, 2005 in preparation for the first national Shreve reunion. The site moved again in the summer of 2008 to its current location at www.shrevehistory.com. Gregory M. Shreve's Professional Web Page and Resume When not adding to this web site, Greg Shreve has a day job as Chairman of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Professor of Translation and Applied Linguistics at Kent State University. http://appling.kent.edu/Shreve/VITA-Shreve.pdf Joan M. Shreve About-Joan-Shreve-Web-Portrait.jpg Biography Joan Shreve was born in Indiana, but then moved with her family to Pittsburgh where her father pursued a career with US Steel. Joan has a Master of Arts in Library Science from Kent State University and a degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Joan was the Buhl Librarian of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, Library Director at Kent State University East Liverpool, and Professor of Computer Technology at several Kent State Campuses. Today she pursues entrepreneurial interests and researches her own genealogical heritage as well as Greg's. Joan's heritage is entirely Scandinavian, with a father of Swedish heritage and a mother of Norwegian heritage. The Swedes come from the province of Skane, and the Norwegians from Nordfjord and the island of Vikna. Notwithstanding the divergence in their genealogical roots, Joan soon fell in love with Greg's grandparents, who adopted her as one of their own. It was in the kitchen of their small house in Mill Creek that Joan first transcribed the family histories and genealogies of Greg's ancestors. With Greg, she is active in Randolph County family reunions of the Shreves and Finchams. Of course, now Greg must pay back her dedication to Shreve genealogy by helping create a web site for her Norwegian and Swedish ancestors! Home Joan and Greg reside in Kent, Ohio with their three children and three cats (Ariel, Muffin and Harris). They try to take care of an 88-year old 14-room neo-colonial house built by Dudley Mason of the Mason Tire and Rubber Company in 1916.