I ordered one of the Halbert books on one of their go-rounds.....you will get a nice book a good deal of information on the subject of genealogy [what it is, how to record information, etc.], one of the many explanations of where the name originated. The majority of the book is a complilation of numerous phone books. You will get a <underline>huge</underline> list of Whittaker listings; you can obtain far more accurate information on the Internet from the various search pages. Like so many of these things, what they provide is within the limits of the law; what you will get is far from what you will be expecting. At 03:27 AM 11/16/97 -0800, you wrote: >WHITAKER-D Digest Volume 97 : Issue 44 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Whit(t)aker Vital Statistics (Rhod [Bob Whittaker <<[email protected]>] > #2 New World Book of Whitakers? [[email protected]] > #3 Re: New World Book of Whitakers? [Linda Knott <<[email protected]>] > #4 Re: New World Book of Whitakers? - ["Michael F. Cosner" <<[email protected]] > #5 Whitaker Worldbook ["Carolyn Paisley" <<[email protected]] > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 09:52:00 -0500 >From: Bob Whittaker <<[email protected]> >To: WHITAKER LIST SERVER <<[email protected]> >Message-ID: <<[email protected]> >Subject: Whit(t)aker Vital Statistics (Rhode Island) >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Everyone! > >I have scanned the Rhode Island Vital statistics index for the >Whit(t)aker surname from the RI State Archives. The information I have >is in seven separate documents as follows: > >Birth (1853 - 1878) >Marriage Bride (1853 - 1878) >Marriage Groom (1853 - 1878) >Death (1852 - 1878) > >Birth (1879 - 1889) >Marriage Bride (1879 - 1889) >Death (1879 - 1889) > >I will be scanning the Birth (1890 - 1900) index within the next few >days, and will be returning to the archives to obtain other index >information for Rhode Island Whit(t)akers. > >The index information for Births includes name of child, names of >parents, date of birth and reference to town, book, page of record. > >The index information for Marriage includes names of Bride, Groom, date >of marriage and reference to town, book and page of record. > >The index information for death includes name of deceased, parents names >date of death and reference to town, book and page of record. > >If anyone would like this information, please let me know. If you find >someone in the indices, it will be possible to obtain a copy of the >actual town record from the archives. > >Hope this information will be helpful! > >Bob Whittaker > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 21:37:56 -0500 (EST) >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <<[email protected]> >Subject: New World Book of Whitakers? > >Hi Everybody: > >I received in the mail today an offer to purchase "The New World Book of >Whitakers" published by Halberts in Bath, Ohio. > >Has anyone ever heard of either this book, or this publisher? From what I >have received, this sounds like a reasonable deal. Although, according to >the literature enclosed with the order form, virtually everyone on the >Whitaker mailing list should have received this offer as well. > >I would appreciate any feedback. > >I hope everyone has a pleasant weekend. > >Allen A. Whitaker >[email protected] > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 22:04:18 -0500 >From: Linda Knott <<[email protected]> >To: [email protected], > Whitaker/Whittaker/Whiteacre Variations <<[email protected]> >Message-ID: <<[email protected]> >Subject: Re: New World Book of Whitakers? >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I haven't! Be careful of those book offers. I wouldn't order unless I >know someone else has it. 10 or 15 years ago there was a company >offering family history books that didn't exist. Unless you know the >company, be careful... > >Linda Whittaker Knott >****************** > >[email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Everybody: >> >> I received in the mail today an offer to purchase "The New World Book >> of >> Whitakers" published by Halberts in Bath, Ohio. >> >> Has anyone ever heard of either this book, or this publisher? From >> what I >> have received, this sounds like a reasonable deal. Although, >> according to >> the literature enclosed with the order form, virtually everyone on the >> >> Whitaker mailing list should have received this offer as well. >> >> I would appreciate any feedback. >> >> I hope everyone has a pleasant weekend. >> >> Allen A. Whitaker >> [email protected] > >______________________________X-Message: #4 >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 22:18:01 -0500 >From: "Michael F. Cosner" <<[email protected]> >To: <<[email protected]> >Cc: <<[email protected]> >Message-ID: <<[email protected]> >Subject: Re: New World Book of Whitakers? - Bath, Ohio - BE WARE >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Allen, > >Beware of this RIPOFF. I'll bet the letter in the mail was from a person >with the last name of Whitaker. I get several a year from a Ron Cosner that >I'll bet doesn't exist. they offer Cosner books, mugs with crests on them, >towels with my Surname, placks, etc. I did a search on this group and found >some places that will provide you some background to make your own decision: > >http://www.genealogy.org/~ngs/text/halberts.txt > >http://www.wwnet.net/~krugman1/gentext/scam.txt > >http://www.iarelative.com/rip_off.htm > >Goodluck, >Mike Cosner > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <<[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <<[email protected]> >Date: Saturday, November 15, 1997 9:43 PM >Subject: New World Book of Whitakers? > > >>Hi Everybody: >> >>I received in the mail today an offer to purchase "The New World Book of >>Whitakers" published by Halberts in Bath, Ohio. >> >>Has anyone ever heard of either this book, or this publisher? From what I >>have received, this sounds like a reasonable deal. Although, according to >>the literature enclosed with the order form, virtually everyone on the >>Whitaker mailing list should have received this offer as well. >> >>I would appreciate any feedback. >> >>I hope everyone has a pleasant weekend. >> >>Allen A. Whitaker >>[email protected] >> >> > >______________________________X-Message: #5 >Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:36:27 PST >From: "Carolyn Paisley" <<[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <<[email protected]> >Subject: Whitaker Worldbook >Content-Type: text/plain > >I agree with Linda. There have been many companies exploiting the >current passion for family history and I would be suspicious of this >one. I know someone who ordered a book such as this for another >surname, and it turned out to be a list of telephone numbers gleaned >from American telephone directories and a several page history of the >surname. It would have been no use to me. The way I see it, I have >spent the last twelve years and a lot of money trying to trace and >document my Whitakers, so why should anyone else do the same for people >who do not belong to them? I wouldn't touch this book with a ten foot >barge pole. Carolyn > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > Bob Whittaker [email protected] http://www.txcc.net/~beard