Tracing back the patrilenial line:

Mark Rogan Whitis       4/6/64 (Me)

David Monroe Whitis     (My Father)
   Wife: Lillian Yvonne Morris
   Children: Mark Rogan Whitis and Tanya Michelle Whitis
   
Rufus Rogan Whitis II   (My Grandfather)
   Lived in NY, then FL
   Wife: Ruth Josephine Room
   Children: peter phil bob steve

Charles Wesley Whitis II (My Great Grandfather)
   Born: 12/17/1872 in Auston Texas
   Wife: Francis Fallowell Robinson
   Children: frances, sallie, rufus, philip, laura
   Note: was living in NY at age 65 in 1938

Charles Wesley Whitis I  1828-1877    (My Great Great Grandfather)
   Born: 1828, Eastern Tennessee
   Died: 1877
   Emigrate to Texas in 1852
   Has street(s), building, and (former?) school named after him
      in Austin, TX
   Wife: Florence Rogan from Kingsport Tennesse
   Children: Rufus, Mollie, John, Florance, Ellen, Gertrude,
      Charles II, two more.

Thomas Whitis                         (My Great Great Great Grandfather)
   Note: Did not talk about past
   Wife: Wlizabeth
   Children: Hiram and Charles Wesley Whitis


Other family names which show up in the tree (number inside brackets
is the number of times that family name appears in the current version
of my GED file).
   - Morris [5]
   - Rogan (Danial Rogan immigrated from Ireland in 1791).  [16]
     This is the source of my middle name
     I think this is the only case where I can trace a specific 
     ancestor to have immigrated from a foreign country
   - Roome [10]
     I can trace specific ancestors back to 1684
   - Kieth [5]
     Minor C Keith (first cousin to Julia Keith, one of my
     direct anscestors) built first trans-continental railroad
     in Coast Rica, Married Daughter of Coasta Rica, founder of
     United Fruit Company
   - Castro [3]
   - Bogardes [2]
   - Berry [2]
   - Burton [1]
   - Morse [1]
   - Crawford [1]
   - Robinson [1]
   - Smith [1]
   - Elyea [1]
   - Merrill [1]
   - Vangelder [1]
   - McWilliams [1]
   - Carnell [1]
   - Lamsha [1]
   - Rarrison [1]
   - Meigs [1]
   - Vangelder [1]
   - Spear [1]

Written 5/30/96 by Mark Rogan Whitis