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From: "joni m" <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] attendee list
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:55:34 -0400
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Hi everyone,

The list of attendees has been copied. I will be getting them
packaged up and ready to mail out by the end of the week.

(For those who didn't attend, this is a list which those who were
willing to share their address info with other attendees signed.)

Joan Whitney Markert

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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Hello!


> Chris:
>
> I'd like to answer your question about the book entitled "The
Ancestry of
> John Whitney" This seems to refer to the book published in 1895 by
Henry
> Melville. I am one of the few in the WRG who actually owns a copy.
In this
> book, the history of the Whitney family of Whitney on Wye in
Hereford is
> discussed and described. The one major problem with it is that it
contains a
> link between Thomas Whitney, gentleman, of Westminster, father of
the
> immigrant John Whitney, and a man named Robert Whitney, for whom the
linkage
> back to the others is reasonably well shown. However, both Donald
Lines
> Jacobus (many years ago) and a modern day genealogical professional
named
> Paul C. Reed have very cogently demonstrated that it is not possible
for our
> Thomas Whitney to be the third son of that Robert. Mr. Robert Ward,
another
> professional genealogist among our membership did an outstanding
presentation
> about this matter just this past weekend at our (first?) Whitney
Research
> Group reunion.
>
> So, in essence, you can take the Melville as a decent book up to the
> father-son link between Robert Whitney and Thomas Whitney, and
fairly good
> from Thomas on down to John and his migration. The first part is
very
> interesting historically, the latter useful for present day
genealogical
> purposes.
>
> Happy Hunting.
>
> Allan E. Green
>

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