-----Original Message----- Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:56 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Gleaned from Ancestry.com > >Bordering New York and Pennsylvania, New Jersey is said to be one of the most >densely populated states in the country. This is understatement. New Jersey is by far the most densely populated state in the Union. Here is a comparison, using figures from a recent National Geographic Road Atlas: New Jersey 1,034 residents per sq. mi. Rhode Island 814 Massachussets 738 Connecticut 651 Maryland 487 New York 369 Delaware 357 Ohio 270 Pennsylvania 265 Florida 250 Illinois 211 California 203 Hawaii 183 District of Columbia 7,666 California and Florida will jump a space or three for 2000. Here's the whole country, with slightly different (land-only) numbers: http://www.demographia.com/db-landstatepopdens.htm Last, but hardly least, here is the density of Whitneys: http://hamrick.com/names/names.cgi?surname=whitney&year=1990&type=html (What's the story with Alabama?) Cheers, Ron Kyser