Dear Rose Zella: Hi, and welcome to the Whitney Research Group (WRG). You have given us some good information, and we will be delighted to try and help you in your search. Dea. is short for Deacon, and this Jonathan was evidently a very upstanding member of his community if he was both a Deacon in his church and a Captain in his local Militia. Can you give us a little more information about this Jonathan, so that we may help you place him in the proper family tree? What dates and places do you have for him? Have you found our WRG website yet? It contains a wonderful amount of useful research data as well as several different databases of family descent from early ancestors. Your Jonathan may well be found there already, which would allow you to take advantage of what has already been done by other members of the WRG. The address is: http://www.whitneygen.org/ and it includes an excellent search engine that will allow you to enter a name you want to look for and it will give you all of the places on the website where that name can be found. Naturally, not all Jonathan Whitneys will be your Jonathan, but hopefully you will find something useful. Don't hesitate to write to us again, asking for further help. The county is pronounced as the announcer said, but more like Wuss-ter rather than Woo-ster (if any of my New England friends wishes to disagree, please feel free to chime in). Happy Hunting! Allan E. Green

Worcester is pronounced "WOUSTER" or as we in Worcester pronounce it "WOUSTA". We have a tendency to drop the "ER" and add an "A" on the words that end in "ER"! Sharon Barnett ----- Original Message ----- From: <ALLAGREEN@aol.com> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 12:23 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] (no subject) > Dear Rose Zella: > > Hi, and welcome to the Whitney Research Group (WRG). You have given us some > good information, and we will be delighted to try and help you in your > search. > > Dea. is short for Deacon, and this Jonathan was evidently a very upstanding > member of his community if he was both a Deacon in his church and a Captain > in his local Militia. > > Can you give us a little more information about this Jonathan, so that we may > help you place him in the proper family tree? What dates and places do you > have for him? > > Have you found our WRG website yet? It contains a wonderful amount of useful > research data as well as several different databases of family descent from > early ancestors. Your Jonathan may well be found there already, which would > allow you to take advantage of what has already been done by other members of > the WRG. The address is: > > http://www.whitneygen.org/ > > and it includes an excellent search engine that will allow you to enter a > name you want to look for and it will give you all of the places on the > website where that name can be found. Naturally, not all Jonathan Whitneys > will be your Jonathan, but hopefully you will find something useful. > > Don't hesitate to write to us again, asking for further help. The county is > pronounced as the announcer said, but more like Wuss-ter rather than Woo-ster > (if any of my New England friends wishes to disagree, please feel free to > chime in). > > Happy Hunting! > > Allan E. Green >