Ahoy, Ahoy: Whits: My name is Thomas WHITNEY Kavanagh. Some years ago, when I was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, I happened to be in to the office of my advisor, Karl Schwerin, and I noticed on his filing cabinet, a book entitled _The Whitneys_. So I says to him, "What are you doing with a book about my family?". And he says to me, "Your family?!" And we compare notes, and find that any connection is so far back that there is no conflict of interest. But now, 14 years later, he points me to the WHITNEY-L address. So what's a guy to do. This is what we know about our Whitneys: Henry L.[S?] (b1816?) {where?} m. Mahala [Malinda?] McCoy (b 1817?) 12/17/41 at Rockport, IN William B. 12/5/42 -6/1/65 (42nd Ind, died of disease). Bradford 2/13/45 - 12/3/63 (unspec Ind Reg.; dies of disease) Thomas James (b?) m. Mary Jane Strauss (b 1853) Gentryville, IN Feb 9, 1873 [1874?] -Ernest Jan. 28 1874-Feb 16, 1874 -Travis H. June 22, 1875-Jan 8, 1934 {both Whitney parents, and Travis and Mary Jane move to Girard, Kansas, 1876} Travis m. Rosalie Lowe {1st woman judge on family court in NYC} -Travis H (Jan. 29 1905) -John Law (Nov. 15, 1906) -William Thomas Sept 14, 1908 -Charles A. [Born in Girard, K] Aug. 24 1879 -married Geneva Bamford Aug. 29, 1911 -Mary Catherine b Sept 15,1914 -m George M. Kavanagh (b 1920) 1944 -George 1947 -THOMAS WHITNEY (1949) {me} -Charles Bamford Nov 6, 1915 [my cousins] etc. etc That is, if you go back up the line, since William B., and Bradford both died in the War., for us there is the two line, from Henry to Travis, and via Charles A., to me. But up beyond Henry S/L ca. 1816-187x? {Girard, KS.} we have nothing. Mary Jane Straus Whitney wrote a memoir of her life thru about 1905. I have transcribed it and put it on my web page, http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/maryjane.html If you read it, be aware, my mother called her a "collector of greivances." I also have a set of memoirs from my maternal grandparental side: Charles Whitney married Geneva Bamforth, whose father, Methodist minister Morris Bamforth wrote a manuscript, which I have, "The Bamforths and Luddintons and others." I also have some remiscensces about werkin in th' mills, don't cha know, from my paternal grandmother, Catherine Downs Kavanagh from Blackstone, R.I. tk