User:Tdoyle/2008 4Q
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Bot Issue?
Tim:
Check out [[Georgge Whitney]] and the page to which it leads one. This seems to be a children bot error of a most unusual kind.
- Robert - Talk to me 19:00, 2 October 2008 (CDT)
Edward Augustus Whitney
Dear Tim:
I'm deep in research on Edward A. Whitney (1843-1917). I'm writing his biography and still trying to plumb his childhood. While there is lots written about his uncle Josiah D Whitney (Northampton banker) and his famous geologist cousin Josiah D. Whitney Jr. (1819-1896), there's almost nothing about Edward Whitney's father, Abel Whitney (1800-1883). I'm looking for numerous sets of papers and letters:
1) Abel Whitney (1756-1807)
2) Josiah Dwight Whitney Sr (1786-1864)
3) Josiah Dwight Whitney Jr (1819-1896)
4) William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894)
5) James Lyman Whitney (1835-?
6) Alice Lincoln Whitney (1840-?
Yale University, I think, has many of the papers of William Dwight Whitney. Any idea who has the letters and papers of these other Whitneys?
Thanks!
Samuel Western
307-631-2049
http://www.golden-valley.co.uk/cottagefarm/
Adding Wives?
Tim:
What do you think about adding wives to the name disambiguation pages? For example, one could put Elinor (-----) Whitney, first wife of John1 Whitney of Watertown, on the "Elinor Whitney" page, with a link to John's page. That would make the female name disambiguation pages much larger, but would make it a lot easier to find them, when one encounters a female with that name who might be a wife or widow. (For example, see the unattached individuals page.)
This wouldn't be very easy to do automagically (but maybe you have ideas on that), but one could start doing this manually, a little bit at a time.
- Robert - Talk to me 08:06, 15 November 2008 (CST)
More on Wives
Tim,
One should also look for second and third wives, once a first wife is found. Each would be after the preceding wife, also following another "married" and between triple apostrophes.
In a related area, can you somehow compile a list of pages which still begin with a comment line? Those comments are an artifact of the Pierce import, and their presence means that work needs to be done to clean them up. With such a list, I could do the cleaning up, and then what we have agreed upon about the format of wives' entries would be assured.
- Robert - Talk to me 10:09, 17 November 2008 (CST)
Still More on Wives
Of course, there are some wives for whom we only have intentions of marriage or marriage banns, so one would have to accommodate that possibility, too.
- Robert - Talk to me 16:08, 23 November 2008 (CST)
How Many Whitneys Addition
Tim:
I found on the Census Bureau web site that in the 2000 census, Whitney was the 934th most common surname, and that there were 34,231 of them enumerated. Using your statistical model, there should be 10^4.295 of them, which is just a little less than 20,000 (10^4.301), which is a substantial discrepancy. Obviously the model is inadequate for times past 1930. I don't know if there is any way you can make an adjustment. Perhaps a warning about that on the model's web page would suffice.
- Robert - Talk to me 16:06, 23 November 2008 (CST)
DNA
Tim:
I have had my father's dna tested and we received the result some time ago, but no information has been added on the results page. His kit number is 127350 and the result was a 12 match to John Whitney. We are in the Unconnected Whitneys of Ebenezer Whitney. I am a novice at using this site and do not know how to add this information. Thank you for all the hard work you do to enrich our family studies.
Lorraine B.
TIMOTHY U R 2 A GENT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Eyeglasses
Tim,
Did you notice this? Family:Whitney, Charles P. (1861-?)
- Robert - Talk to me 09:58, 23 December 2008 (CST)
Thanks for the note
Hi Tim, thank you for the note. I have not used this tool, so hopefully this works out properly. My Ann Whitney married Warren Percival, probably in Norwich, VT about 1800. They lived in Norwich until about 1820 when they moved to Ashtabula county, OH. After Warren died in 1841, Ann traveled to Dewitt, Clinton, Iowa with one of her children and she died there about 1845. Family folklore (continuously spread on the family trees online) has it that she had either two brothers or nephews named Joseph and William and they lived in Oswego, NY. I have been using this GREAT site to pursue several hypotheses over the past 2 years. Currently, I am looking into Elijah and Cloe (Beckley) as possible parents. This site shows an Electa as a daughter but no further information. A granddaughter of Ann was named Electa (Woodworth). Also, a son of Elijah and Cloe, named William, moved to Norwich sometime before 1808 when he married Prudence Brown. The other 3 sons (Elijah Jr., Elisha, and Joseph all moved to the Scriba, Oswego, NY area prior to 1820. Lots of potential but nothing concrete yet. I am currently going through the Canaan, CT Town Records film. The Probate records for 1820-1826 from the Sharon District has no listing for Elijah. So now I am puzzled as to where Elijah may have died (May 26, 1821) so I can try to find his probate records. He and his wife are listed in the 1820 Canaan, Litchfield, CT census; but I suppose it is possible that they moved to live with one of their sons just prior to his death. Any thoughts / recommendations on this avenue? I am also going through the Land Records film for Canaan looking for more clues. What is the best way for me to post my efforts and get feedback / suggestions? Thanks again, Doug
