Home page for Whitis clan geneology information

Also featuring Whitehurst genealogy prior to about 1828; see the mailing list archive and my family tree in GEDCOM file or GED2HTML format.

This page is maintained by Mark Rogan Whitis (whitis@freelabs.com).

The Whitis name

Mark Rogan Whitis's Genealogy Home Page

Mailing List

I have created two Email mailing lists for people interested in sharing infomation on the Whitis name or geneology. The addresses to use in connection with these lists are:

• whitis-clan@dbd.com: Send to this address to send mail to all of the subscribers of the list. You do not have to join the list to post to it, although you should tell people if you are not on the list so they can respond to you directly and check the archive before and after.
• whitis-clan-request@dbd.com : Send administrative requests (such as requests to be added or deleted from the list) to this address.
• whitis-clan-archive@dbd.com: This address sends directly to the mailing list archive without sending a copy to all of the subscribers. This can be used to archive some information without filling everyones mailboxes. Do not send HUGE messages to this address - instead make other arrangements with me for file transfer.

• Archive of whitis-clan mailing lists
• list of subscribers to whitis-clan

Distribution of the Whitis clan

• Kentucky: 108
• Indiana: 49
• Ohio: 44
• Texas: 60
• Florida: 10
• Illinois: 8
• Arizona: 6
• Arkansas: 6
• Oklahoma: 6
• Georgia: 5
• Michigan: 5
• Virginia: 4
• North Carolina: 4
• Missouri: 4
• New York: 3
• Iowa: 3
• Louisiana: 3
• Tennesssee: 3
• Utah: 2
• Washington: 2
• Colorodo: 2
• Alabama: 2
• Kansas: 2
• West Virginia: 1
• Maryland: 1
• California: 1

Lists of People named Whitis

• List of people with surname whitis on the net
• List of people with surname whitis in the phonebook

Whitis/Whitehurst connection

NOTE: that there appears to be an error between Simon Whitehurst and Richard Whitehurst, since it appears that a couple generations have been skipped. This error is in the original email message (check the archive) from which I took this information.

Some of my own personal geneological information

• My Family Tree in HTML format (see the note above regarding error).
• Scans of Source Documents
• Those who are trying to find links from their family to mine are most likely to be related through Charles Wesley Whitis I.
• My GEDCOM file
• A description of my Patrilineal lineage
• Descendants of William Whitehurst (postscript chart)
• Descendants of William Whitehurst (text report)
• Ancestors of Mark Whitis (text report)
• (postscript chart) Ancestors of Mark Whitis
• Autobiographyof Charles Wesley Whitis II [1872-??] (partially transcribed)
• I pronounce my last name Y-tis. You can here me say it by downloading this audiofile

Other peoples information

• The Shelton family page. Descendents of Thomas Joshua Whitis. Goes back about eight generations.

Snake oil

These generally offer much less information than you can get on the Internet (even without these pages).

The advertisements range from intentionally misleading to downright fraudulent. What you really get is a list of names out of the phone book (the same list they used to send out these mailings), Social Security Death Master File, and a few other databases of little significance. If you are totally computer illiterate and have no internet access then these publications might have some marginal use.

I actually ordered one of these; it was as bad as I expected. That one was "Three Centuries of Whitis", 7335 E Orchard Rd #400D, Englewood, CO 80111, 303-771-6818.

The latest advertisement I received was from "The Whitis Archives", 250 Coolidge St, Midvale, UT 84047-3829, apparently publlished by Mountain West News 801-255-4238, 888-751-NEWS. This one claims to have a few more databases than the three centuries one.

If you can't find what you are looking for

• Did you browse the patrilineal path in my family tree?
• Did you read Ava's message of 31 May 1996? (now linked separately)
• Did you read and/or search (using your browsers built in string search) the rest of the mailing list archive? It is a breach of Netiquette to send a message to a mailing list, or the lists owner, without checking the archive first.
• Use your favorite search engine to search this web site. In altavista's advanced search, for example, you can use the search keyword "url:http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/clan/" to confine your search to this site. Be warned, however, your search engine may very well skip the mailing list archive and the text versions of the source documents since these are not html files.
• Send email to the whitis-clan list
• DO NOT TELEPHONE ME. You are likely to disturb my sleep, I might have better things to do at that moment, and I probably won't even be in the same location as the records. If you have a question send me email directly or via the list.

If you did find what you were looking for

If possible, try to contribute something back.

Contributions Welcome

• your family tree may be useful to others who lack the information to tie themselves back to Thomas and Elizibeth whitis/whitehurst.
• You might have dates and places of birth/date/marriage, biographies, birth certificates, or other information/documents which would be of interest.
• You could volunteer to be a contact point for people who do not have internet access.
• You might be geographically located near sources of information which would be prohibitively expensive for most of us to retrieve. Particularly if you are located near Somerset, Kentucky or Austin, Texas. For example, I know there is (or was) an entire box of whitis records at the Austin Public Library which cover the texas branch of the clan. I would appreciate scans or copies of those documents.
• Copies of rare books are welcome.
• There is information in the mailing list archive which has not been made availible in GEDCOM format; someone could convert that.
• Cash, hard drives, etc.

NO PHONE CALLS!!!!