Whitney Research Group Members

The following list summarizes prominent members of the Whitney Research Group through the years. It is by no means a complete list of members.

Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq.

Adrian was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see his user page.

Albert Durrell

Albert was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see his user page.

Allan Green

Allan was a member of the Whitney Research Group from the beginning in 1996 and contributed greatly to the group's success. Since late 1997, over the course of the last 11 years, Allan posted over 900 emails to the group, contributing information and helping many people to find their Whitney ancestry. He kept a Whitney database, contributed financially to Whitney research, and helped with a subgroup to discuss research on the ancestry of Thomas Whitney of Westminster. Allan died 30 Mar 2009. He will be missed! For more information, see his user page.

Andaleen Whitney

Andaleen was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see her user page.

Ann Mathewson

Ann was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see her user page.

Arv Whitney

Arv was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see his user page.

Bruce A. Whitney

Bruce was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see his user page.

Carol Cook

Carol was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see her user page.

Eleanore Dilello

Eleanore was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

J. Michael Poston

For more information, see his user page.

Jan Whitaker

Jan was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Maine Vital Records.

Janet Whitney

Janet was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see her user page.

Jeanne Muse

Jeanne was an early organizer of the Whitney Research Group, acting as a clearinghouse for distributing emails to the group and coordinating the manual updating of the list itself. She posted with the following email addresses:

Jeanne "retired" from the group in early 2003, posting just a few times since. On 2 Jan 2004, Jeanne posted the following:

"Hello again from Jeanne Muse ... hopefully still remembered by most of you :) I'm back only temporarily so I can say hello, Happy New Year, and to tell you what's been up. (See below for the status of the Whitney databases)"

"I took a sabatical away from genealogy for a year and haven't been researching at all. Why, you ask? Well ... I did spent 12 years working very hard at it ... and I needed a rest. Besides, I'm still very gainfully employed -and- my husband and I do so much work-related travel that so-called "free" time is spent doing things together. (He's not interested in studying "dead people", as he puts it!)"

"Although I am still interested in my family tree, my Whitneys are basically done. So any future work will probably concern my mother's Goldsmith surname - on which I have been stuck in the mid 1700s for a long time."

Jeanne maintained three of the WRG's GEDCOM databases (one of the John Whitney databases, the Henry Whitney database, and the Unconnected Whitneys database), all of which she has provided the most recent versions to the group.

Joan Whitney Markert

Joan was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see her user page.

Jon Aston

Jon Aston was an early member of the WRG. He was a volunteer for the Pierce Transcription Project. He maintains the main GEDCOM of descendants of John¹ and Elinor (-----) Whitney of Watertown, MA.

Judy Wright

Judy was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

Lois Valentin

Lois was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

Marilyn Williams

Marilyn was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

Paul Nichols

Paul was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

Peg Sanborn

Peg was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Maine Vital Records.

Robert Croxton Whitney

Robert currently serves as the Whitney Research Group Mailing List administrator.

Robert L. Ward

Robert was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see his user page.

Stacy Whitney

Stacy was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

Tim Doyle

Tim joined the group in September, 1997 when another WRG member noticed an error in his Whitney lineage in his online database. Tim has been active in the group since that time, participating in many projects. In 1998, he transcribed a large number of census indexes for the group. In 1999, he coordinated the Pierce Transcription Project. He has served as the group's co-webmaster since 1999 when he worked with Robert Ward to create the www.whitneygen.org website, and in 2006 created the current wiki version of the website. In 2006, he coordinated the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project. Along with Robert L. Ward he authored an article on the ancestry of John Whitney, appearing in the July 2007 issue of The American Genealogist. His projects currently include researching medieval Whitney families in England and Wales, helping with the Whitney Census Identification Project. He is Co-coordinator of the Whitney Family DNA Project along with Whitney Keen.

Whitney Keen

Whitney serves as the co-coordinator of the Whitney Family DNA Project along with Tim Doyle.