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Subject: Windham Co., CT Marriages
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:34:45 -0400 (EDT)

Dear WRG:

In looking at someone's website late last night, I came upon a link to a
listing of marriages of Windham Co., CT (which touches the MA border) and
found a few Whitney marriages. They are stated to have been extracted from
three sources; CT Vital Records, the Barbour Collection (with which I am not
familiar) and Bailey's "Early CT Marriages".

Whitney, Cornelius (of Killingly) and Zerviah CLEVELAND, Nov. 7, 1751

Whitney, James Rix, and Polly HOLLAND, Oct. 31, 1781

Whitney, Sophia, and Capt. Elishan LORD, Nov. 28, 1799

Whitney, Elizabeth, and John PARISH, May 30, 1790

Whitney, Eunice, and Stephen BACKUS, Sept. 2, 1798

Whitney, Lois, and Erastus BAKER, Nov. 4, 1787

I hope that these will prove useful to someone among the WRG.

Can Jon or someone please tell me how many persons/individuals there should
be in the Witney12 gedcom. I created a new database with one of the files
that I downloaded and found 6892 individuals and 2961 marriages. It had a
number of errors that it reported, including two husbands shown as female
(one of which was the same female name married to herself as husband and
unlinked - when I got details I found a record number that brought up the
husband, who was linked back to his ancestry, but opening the marriage record
got me only the wife married to herself as husband again, and it won't let me
delete and replace that "husband" with the one it is supposed to be). I may
come back to this and try again if one of the other versions doesn't work
better. I don't want to spend time struggling with this database if it
doesn't have all the material in it anyway.

Before I try again to deal with the powers that be at Rootsweb, has anyone
heard from or anything about Michael Ray Whitney since last April? The last
time I tried with the owners of Rootsweb to determine the status of the
listowner question, they told me that they had heard from Michael on the
matter and would get back to me. They never did, and so I thought I might
try again. I don't really WANT to be listowner, but the list will really be
more effective if SOMEONE is, so as to handle whatever problems come up and
keep track of the current status of the membership list, etc. AOL members
directory still shows him as having an account, but the last time I tried to
e-mail him (which was admittedly quite a while ago) the message came back
mailbox full. I'll try again to send him an e-mail tonight, and report back
on the result - but if anyone else has information, please let me know.

Allan E. Green
"Why is the word abbreviation so long?"

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