Hi all-- I am a WHITAKER descendant and a book author and I'm wondering if anyone on this list can help me with my latest book. I'm under contract with Groliers, Inc., to write a book about internet genealogy for teens. If you know any young people who have done any family history research on the internet, I'd like to include their stories in my book. I'd could also use people in their 20's who began their research in their teens. Please have anyone interested in doing this contact me by email at sjnanner@compuserve.com if they'd like to share their genealogy research stories with other teens. I won't use last names of minors unless I have the permission of their parents. Thanks so much for your help. Nancy Shepherdson

I don't have a current teen or twenty-something, but I thought you would be interested in how I got started as a teen, as it can be a message for teachers. My great grandmother had researched my mother's side and had written three books. My father's side, however, was not researched and was an unknown. In the eleventh grade, my history teacher has us do a family tree. My mother suggested I speak to my grandmother to fill in that side, rather than transcribe the other side. I contacted my grandmother, who lived in another state. No one in the family had ever shown interest, so she happily sent me photographs and everything she knew. When she passed away, I was the only one who had any information. My father and I have since used her valuable information as a starting point to develop a meaningful family history to pass on to my children. If it had not been for my history teacher, this would not have happened. Kathryn (Morier) Whitaker On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 10:50 PM, nancy shepherdson wrote: > Hi all-- > > I am a WHITAKER descendant and a book author and I'm wondering if > anyone on > this list can help me with my latest book. I'm under contract with > Groliers, Inc., to write a book about internet genealogy for teens. If > you > know any young people who have done any family history research on the > internet, I'd like to include their stories in my book. I'd could also > use > people in their 20's who began their research in their teens. > > Please have anyone interested in doing this contact me by email at > sjnanner@compuserve.com > if they'd like to share their genealogy research stories with other > teens. > I won't use last names of minors unless I have the permission of their > parents. > > Thanks so much for your help. > Nancy Shepherdson > > > ==== WHITAKER Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >