Hello Carolyn, I have a couple of suggestions: In her genealogy "The Hinkleys of Maine", Marlene Alma Hinkley Groves writes on pg 53 that Lydia Curit was born 30 Jan 1776. I don't have her source for that date, but she source codes everything, so it is probably available. Starting with her source may be helpful. Also, try the Weymouth Technologies website at www.weymouthtech.com. Click on Weymouth Genealogy Database. You will find some Curit info, including a Lydia Curit. Perhaps corresponding through this site will be fruitful. Also, do a search at www.google.com for "Curit genealogy." This brings up some web sites for possible communications. Good luck, and let us know of any positive result. Ken Whitney ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Branagan <slainte@together.net> To: <WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 6:15 PM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] family history > I have two unrelated questions for the group today. They are: > > 1. What are the accepted procedures for sharing genealogical > information on people who are still alive? I, of course want to > protect everyone (my elderly parents as well as my minor children) from > fraudulent use of any information I discover, but what is the right way > to proceed, without covering up so much that distant cousins are > unable to get in touch ? > > 2. As many of you know I'm following a line of the Maine Whitneys. > > John and Elinor ? Whitney > Benjamin and Jane ? Whitney > John and Letty Ford Whitney > Benjamin and Mercy Hinkley Whitney > Samuel and Lydia Curit Whitney > John and Almira Turner Whitney > John Carlton and Ella Peaslee > John Willard and Madge Daniels Whitney > > I have not ever been able to find out much about generation 5, Samuel > and Lydia, but recently I had a lead that her maiden name was not > Curit, but Curate and her father was Stephen Curate, a 1771 immigrant to > Boston from France, and her mother was Martha Hern, married 1774. > > I don't know how to get a start on the Curate family. I've looked at > some of the sites that have immigrant ships recorded and haven't found > anything so far. > > Well anyway.......rather than make this any longer, do any of you > have any ideas on how I might get a start on verifying that these > really are Lydia's parents? > > > Thanks, Carolyn Whitney Branagan >