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. See also Whitney Research Group Member Lineages.

A. Whitney Brown

Whitney was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq.

Adrian learned of his descent from John Whitney of Watertown, Mass., when he was a boy from his maternal grandmother. He became involved with researching the English origins of John Whitney in 2006 and obtained the catalogue to the Whitney and Clifford Manor Records collection and copies of several records from the University of Wales, Bangor. He also assisted in the transcribing of the catalogue for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project. In addition to working with Tim Doyle and Robert Ward on the research they published in TAG, Adrian published to articles in Foundations on Robert Whitney, Esq., Lord of Whitney. From 2008 to 2009 Adrian and Tim Doyle have been continuing to research Medieval and early Modern era Whitneys in England and the origins of John Whitney. For more information, see his user page.

Alan Wright

Alan was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Albert Durrell

Albert was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney and was also 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. He was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records and was also a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney. 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.

Barry Whitney

Barry was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Bert Smith

Bert was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Bertha Emmett

Bertha was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Beth Targee

Beth was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Bev Hanner

Bev was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Bill Whitney

Bill was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Brenda Nichols

Brenda was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

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.

Carolyn Vosburg

Carolyn was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Colleen Knights

Colleen was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Denis Adams

Denis was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Ed Sinker

Ed was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Eleanore Dilello

Eleanore was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. She was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney. For more information, see her user page.

Frances Whitney

Frances was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Francis Whitney

Francis was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

George Whitney

George was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Greg Cote

Greg was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Greg Whitney

Greg was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Henry M. Whitney

Henry was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Hope Gomez

Hope was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

J. Michael Poston

Michael was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney. For more information, see his user page.

Jan Whitaker

Jan was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records and was also 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.

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.

Jeanne was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records and also made financial contributions to support the Whitney Research Group website operations.

She signed up for a user page on 4 Aug 2010.

Jerry Whitney

Jerry was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Jessie M. Hamm

Jessie was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Jo Hogle

Jo was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney. For more information, see her user page.

Joan Whitney Markert

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

Joe Keller

Joe was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

John Baxter

John was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

John J. Whitney

John was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

John Whitney

John was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Jon Aston

Jon Aston was an early member of the WRG. He was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney. He was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records. He maintains the main GEDCOM of descendants of John¹ and Elinor (-----) Whitney of Watertown, MA. He has a user page.

Judy Wright

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

Julie Kidd

Julie was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Karen Grubaugh

Karen was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Karen Nugier

Karen was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Kathy Conlin

Kathy was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Liz Whitcomb Cwiklik

Liz was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Lois Valentin

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

Lorraine Ferguson-Goss

Lorraine was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Karen Grubaugh

Karen was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Marcia W. Green

Marcia was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Marilyn Williams

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

Marion Leska

Marion was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records and was also a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Mary Anne Carter Cosgrove

Mary Anne was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Mary Ellen Sharp

Mary Ellen was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Michael Roman

Michael was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Paul Nichols

Paul was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records and was also a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006.

Paula Nagy

Paula was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Peg Sanborn

Peg was a primary volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records and was also a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Maine Vital Records.

Ray Whitney

H. Ray Whitney was an original member from 1996 through 2004. He passed away in 2006.

Rebecca Taccone

Rebecca was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Rick Harwood

Rick was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Robert Croxton Whitney

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

Robert L. Ward

Robert was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records. Robert was a volunteer for the Whitney Manor Records Transcription Project in 2006. For more information, see his user page.

Robert Morrison

Robert was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Robin S. Whitney

Robin was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Sally Towns

Sally was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Sandy Fahrnbruch

Sandy was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Sharon Barnett

Sharon was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney. For more information, see her user page.

Shawn Whitney

Shawn was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Sheila Peel

Sheila was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

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, transcribing The Descendants of John Whitney. 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.

Vickie White

Vickie was a volunteer who helped to transcribe the Massachusetts Vital Records.

Virginia Germano

Virginia was a volunteer who helped to transcribe The Descendants of John Whitney.

Whitney Keen

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