Here is some information from a former student of mine who also has Whitney roots. Perhaps some of you will have connections with this line. Karl Schwerin SnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 e-mail: schwerin@unm.edu Cultural anthropology...is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal. Edward Sapir (1949:151) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:13:47 -0500 (EST) From: thomas w kavanagh <tkavanag@indiana.edu> To: karl h schwerin <schwerin@unm.edu> Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Re: WHITNEY family REUNION (fwd) Thanks Karl. I may check it out. We can trace our Whitneys back to a Henry Whitney somewhere in New England, who then moved to Indiana in the 1830s (I think). I have some memoirs that Mary Jane Straus Whitney (my great-grandmother) wrote sometime around 1900 at http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/maryjane.html There is some mention (not very flattering) of the Whitneys. tk