User:Rlward

This WRG Member is a Descendant of the immigrant John Whitney. This WRG Member was a Volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project. My Whitney Line ThomasA Whitney, m. Mary Bray John1 Whitney, m.(1) Elinor ----- [see second line below] Benjamin2 Whitney, m.(1) Jane ----- Joshua3 Whitney, m. Hannah Rockett Gershom4 Whitney, m.(1) Sarah Wood Sarah5 Whitney, m. Jonathan Flagg Sally Flagg, m. Constantine Hardy John Hardy, m. Sarah Moody Stratton Asa Strong Hardy, m.(2) Mary Elizabeth Earle Charles Willoughby Hardy, m. Sarah Katrina Dodge [see second line below] Sarah Augusta Hardy, m. Gerald Charles Ward Robert Leigh Ward John1 Whitney, m.(1) Elinor ----- [see first line above] John2 Whitney, m. Ruth Reynolds Nathaniel3 Whitney, m.(1) Sarah Hagar Hannah4 Whitney, m. Nathaniel Billing Thomas Billing, m. Sarah [?Fay?] Sarah Billing, m. Samuel Hayward Nathaniel Hayward, m. Melleson Marsh Melleson Hayward, m.(1) Daniel Dodge Asahel Hayward Dodge, m. Fidelia C. Rogers Howard Payson Dodge, m.(1) Susan Augusta Barnes Sarah Katrina Dodge, m. Charles Willoughby Hardy [see first line above]

My name is Robert Ward. I live in Laurel, MD. I retired as a mathematician, and became a professional genealogist. You can access my pedigree charts and my tiny tafel on-line.

I have been a genealogist since about 1958. My mother was a member of the D.A.R. and other lineage societies, as was her aunt before her, and that aunt's aunt had done genealogy before that. I guess that makes me a fourth-generation genealogist!

I am heavily involved in working on the Whitney families. My family has always known about our descent from Sarah (Whitney) Flagg, but not her parentage. In 1968, my mother and I, while working on our Hayward ancestry, discovered our descent from Hannah⁴ (Whitney) Billing. Her descent from John¹ Whitney was easy to establish. We still had not solved the earlier problem. Eventually I hired Dr. Claude Barlow, F.A.S.G., a professional genealogist, to work on the problem. Through a stroke of luck, he was able to solve the problem for me, and establish our second descent.

My WRG history:

• June 1996, joined the WRG before there was a mailing list.
• December 1996, created the first WRG web site in my personal web space.
• April 1999, worked with Tim Doyle to create the www.whitneygen.org web site hosted on Tim's server.
• September 1999, began transcribing and posting Phoenix's book.
• July 2002, spoke at the first WRG Reunion in Lexington, MA.
• June 2004, organized, ran, and spoke at the second WRG Reunion in College Park, MD. One topic I spoke about was my vision of the future of the WRG web site.
• January 2006, Tim Doyle suggested the technology to implement my vision: wiki. Together we are working to migrate www.whitneygen.org to this wiki-based web site.
• In the Fall of 2006 I participated in the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project. I also transcribed various of the documents written in the old English script.
• I am working with Tim Doyle to analyze all evidence to piece together various Medieval Whitney Families. This includes transcribing wills written in the old English script.
• In February 2007, I submitted to The American Genealogist an article on the English ancestry of John¹ Whitney of Watertown, MA. The joint author is Tim Doyle, and we were assisted by Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq. It appeared in July 2007, in the October 2006 issue.
• Starting in the Fall of 2007, I extracted all the remaining untranscribed census records for 1790 through 1850, 1855, and part of 1860, from images of the original population schedules. I also have been participating heavily in the Whitney Census Identification Project.