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From: "Robert L. Ward" <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] LONG SHOT ON A HUNCH
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 21:18:53 -0400


At 08:11 AM 5/5/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Hello and help.
>
>I recently got into tracing family roots and can go back to Revolutionary War
>through some branches, however, I've hit the wall on my paternal side. I have
>good reason to believe that I am somehow a "Whitney" since it was out family
>tradition (as many other families) to assign the maternal surnames as given
>names.
>
>Father -- Francis Whitney Douglass (Francis was his mother's maiden name)
>Grandfather -- Whitney Winfield Douglass (Mother Mary Ann Apfel)
>GGrandfather -- Daniel E. Douglass (The brick wall)
>
>I have a little info (dates & places) on Daniel and Mary Ann through their
>obituaries, however, their lineage is a mystery.
>
>I think one of them had a mother or grandmother "Whitney." I know it is a
>stretch for this branch but I'm out here on the twig and need a limb in order
>to get rooted. (sorry for the literary license couldn't help myself)
>
>Does anyone have a possible connection???
>
>Loretta
>

Loretta,

I haven't any record of any DOUGLASS-WHITNEY or APFEL-WHITNEY connection.
Of course, you haven't given any dates or places to narrow the search.
Sorry!

Regards,

Robert

Robert L. Ward

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