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From: Earleen Bernard <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Re: WHITNEY-D Digest V04 #45
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:59:07 -0600
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Where are the books available?????????????Earleen Bernard

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> WHITNEY-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 45
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 [WHITNEY-L] Tracing Whitney Family [Jonathan Crews <]
> #2 Re: [WHITNEY-L] Tracing Whitney Fa [Stu Parsons <>]
> #3 [WHITNEY-L] Fw: 65th Annual Reunio ["Croxton" <>]
> #4 Re: [WHITNEY-L] Tracing Whitney Fa []
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> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Tracing Whitney Family History
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:22:30 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jonathan Crews <>
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> Hello.
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> I am interested in getting in contact with any members of the Whitney family. I am a descendant of William W Whitney who had a son by the name of William Little Bill Whitney. Little Bill Whitney had a daughter by the name of Bertha Whitney who married Lafe Simonson. Bertha and Lafe had a daughter by the name of Ethel Simson who married my great grandfather Elver Searles.
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> I have found information back 22 generations to 1066 AD on the Whitney family and would love to correspond with others.
>
> Much interest
> -Jon
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> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Tracing Whitney Family History
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:26:22 -0800
> From: Stu Parsons <>
> To:
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> Dear Jonathan,
>
> I had a list from a great Aunt that took the Whitney line back to Thomas and Sir Robert in England and then through royalty back to Charlemagne around 800 AD. When I showed this to a cousin who is a professional genealogist he sent me an article entitled Whitney Origins Revisited by Paul Reed from the American Genealogist, vol 69, 1994, p. 9 through 14. This research pretty
> well discredits the connection with English and French royalty. If you have data on a connection through common Englishmen back to 1066, I would be very interested in seeing it.
>
> Stuart O. Parsons
> 19740 Via Escuela Dr.
> Saratoga, CA 95070
> Tel: 408-867-0987
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> Jonathan Crews wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am interested in getting in contact with any members of the Whitney family. I am a descendant of William W Whitney who had a son by the name of William Little Bill Whitney. Little Bill Whitney had a daughter by the name of Bertha Whitney who married Lafe Simonson. Bertha and Lafe had a daughter by the name of Ethel Simson who married my great grandfather Elver Searles.
> >
> > I have found information back 22 generations to 1066 AD on the Whitney family and would love to correspond with others.
> >
> > Much interest
> > -Jon
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
>
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> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Fw: 65th Annual Reunion of the "Descendants of the Jersey Settlers of Adams County, Mississippi
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:02:28 -0600
> From: "Croxton" <>
> To:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Croxton" <>
> To: "CROXTON" <>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:00 AM
> Subject: 65th Annual Reunion of the "Descendants of the Jersey Settlers of
> Adams County, Mississippi
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> > Hi all, I should like to announce the aforesaid reunion which will take
> > place at Natchez & Kingston, Friday, 23 April to Sunday, 25th April, 2004.
> > This is a family organization of the descendants of eight founding,
> > different families. Some of us are distantly related to Patrick Swayze &
> > William Holden. We have three volumes genealogical books. The first two
> > volumes, which came out together, has (380) pages of index alone. The
> last
> > information I had, all three volumes are still available for sale. Our
> web
> > site is; http://djs.org/ . Call 1-800-260 - 2715 for reservations at the
> > Vidalia Comfort Suite, right across the river in Vidalia, LA. If anyone
> > believes they may have a connection to the descendants of this group, feel
> > free to contact me for further information & a free look-up. - Robert C.
> > Whitney, PS The Whitneys are from just north of
> Adams Co. in Jefferson Co.
> >
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> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Tracing Whitney Family History
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:43:05 EST
> From:
> To:
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> Dear Stuart and Jonathan:
>
> The Reed article AND an earlier one by Donald Lines Jacobus on the same topic
> can be found on the Whitney Research Group's website at:
>
> http://www.whitneygen.org/
>
> Allan E. Green



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