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From: karl h schwerin <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Transcription of Melville's _Ancestry of John Whitney_
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:07:08 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040330113020.029b06b0@pop.rcn.com>

Well done, Robert! This will cewrtainly be a valuable resource for the
Whitney researchers.


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Robert L. Ward wrote:

> Dear WRG,
>
> Many of you are aware of the following book:
> Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with
> His Wife
> Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan,
> Emigrated from
> London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown,
> Massachusetts; the
> First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the
> Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY:
> The De
> Vinne Press, 1896).
> I have just finished transcribing and posting the entire text of this
> book. See
> <http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/melville/index.html>;.
> While no connection has been made between any of the currently living WHITNEY
> families and the gentle family of WHITNEY of Whitney, Herefordshire, there
> is much
> good information contained therein which might be useful in further research to
> establish such connections.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> Mr. Robert L. Ward
>
> http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html
>
>
>

Karl SchwerinSnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology
Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Cultural anthropology...is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering
the normal. Edward Sapir (1949:151)

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