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Brinson-L Genealogy
My own Whitney line.
To use my GED2HTML Genealogy Database, click:
For Pedigree format:
persons.html or
surnames.html.
Family Group format (by special request).
Play the Eugenia Rag through your sound card.
Do you know that Pierce is now online!
Also become familiar with Jon Aston's Rootsweb Whitney Database site.
The best genealogy search site is probably Gendex. If you can find info online, you normally get the E-mail address of a contact.
http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/internet.html
Search the Rootsweb Mailing List Archives!
Other names can also be searched at the Genmatch site.
Rootsweb Global Surname Search 
You might want to subscribe to the WHITNEY-L or another named mailing list at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/surnames/surnames-w.html
Become a volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness or request help
U. S. Geological Survey: Geographic Names Information System, United States and Territories
RAILROAD MAPS 1828-1900
More mailing lists
LDS History centers (new, 1999)
American Immigrant Wall of Honor
This one looks promising: Beginning Genealogy by Dorothy A. Sargent
Try name searches using regular search engines such as Infoseek and Excite, or AltaVista. You may have to use AND or quotation marks with different search engines to narrow your focus initially. For instance, on Infoseek, search "Micah Whitney".
For folks currently living, you can look up E-mail addresses or phone numbers and addresses. See if folks with the surname you are seeking still live in that locality.
Also use the Social Security Death Index or Ancestry World Tree that you can search free at the Ancestry site. It will have information on many of your American relatives who died in the last 100 years.
The US GenWeb Project may be helpful. Especially the Georgia GenWeb Project: Columbia County and Jefferson County.
For New York State, Philadelphia (home of Erastus Whitney), Jefferson County, is well represented on their Genweb site.
And check out the Family Tree Maker site. Their Family Finder Index Search Expert will find folks in MANY census records, and the Internet Family Finder is a good search engine.
E-mail links to folks willing to do Lookups on Family Tree Maker WFT CD's.
Libraries have copies of in-state census indexes and records if that could help.
A genealogy search tool new to me ("I found it").
Also Latter Day Saints (Family History Centers) have lots of genealogy info available at many sites around the country that mirrors the huge Salt Lake City resource to some degree. My understanding is that anyone is welcome to use it.
Cyndi Howell's page gives references to lots of Genealogy sites including LDS.
As does this Genealogy Resources page.
National Archives and Records Administration Genealogy page
Order copies of Wills from Sampubco!
Linda's Favorite Places
Linda's FTM Genealogy Page
Some of Ted's Favorites
http://home.onestop.net/genealogy/
Heritage Quest genealogy bulletin
Good luck, barrywhitney[at]comcast.net
Special Lost-Family Pages
Descendants of James Wagoner
Descendants of Lewis Aldrich
Descendants of William Seymour Burhans
Descendants of William Marcellus Whitney
Descendants of Ambrose Taggart
Add URL to Infoseek
Put your own GEDCOM online
Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web
New Genweb Index
National Genealogical Society
Palatines to America (German)
Ohio River Valley Families Journal of Online Genealogy
Civil War Genealogy Center
Genealogy Links from Civil War site
Traveller Southern Families
The Coast to Coast Software Repository (DOS Genealogy programs)
http://www.geneanet.org/
http://www.sanbachs.com/cdi.html
http://www.cogensoc.org/cgs/cgs-cool.htm -- Cool Sites for Genealogists
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/Genea/rsl -- Roots Surname List Name Finder
http://imabbs.army.mil/cmh-pg/ -- Center of Military History
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1146/links.html -- Many links.
http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html -- Deciphering old handwriting.
Whitney-specific
- Robert L. Ward's excellent Whitney page.
- Have you throughly looked through Jon Aston's site?
- Ancestry of John Whitney who emigrated from England
- Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., of New Haven, Conn., "Pre-American Ancestries: John Whitney of Watertown, Mass.," The American Genealogist, vol. 10 (1933-1934), pp. 84-88.
- Reed, Paul C., "Whitney Origins Revisited: John1 Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts, and Henry1 Whitney of Long Island and Norwalk, Connecticut," The American Genealogist, vol. 69, No. 1 (Jan 1994), pp. 9-14.
- Ancestry of Eli Whitney
- An Erastus Whitney page.
- Learn about Seymour Whitney, Cotton Factor.
- a Micah reference
- Another Micah page
- Lydia Mason married Pvt. Micah WHITNEY (b. Jun. 4, 1725, Framingham, MA; d. Nov. 29, 1791, Douglas, MA), son of James WHITNEY and Martha RICE. Children: Mary; Amos died in infancy; Micah; Daniel; and our Mason.
Programs
(Freeware or only mildly crippled Shareware)
- Genealogy Freeware
- GED2HTML Version 3
- GEDHTREE
- Gedpage
- RESPrivata
- GEDPrivy
- GED2WWW
- GEDClean 16 bit still free
If there are other good genealogy sites that I should add to these lists, let me know!
The End. Come back soon!