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Qualifications

Personal genealogical researcher for more than 40 years in New England, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Wisconsin, etc.

Content owner of the Whitney Research Group website <http://www.whitneygen.org/>.

Special interest in WHITNEY, LAY (of CT), and PRINCE (of NB, Canada) families; and early Lyme, CT.

Graduate of a short course on Genealogical Research, Univ. of Connecticut.

Graduate of a short course on Advanced Genealogical Research, Univ. of Connecticut.

Speaker at local genealogical societies:

• Prince Georges County Genealogical Society
• Genealogy Club of the Montgomery County Historical Society
• Anne Arundel County Genealogical Society
• St. Mary's County Genealogical Society
• Family Historians Genealogy Club
• Howard County Genealogical Society

Officer, Family Historians Genealogy Club:

• President, 3 years
• Vice President, 2 years
• Newsletter Editor, 2 years
• Book Reviewer, 4 years

Member of genealogical societies:

• New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
• Connecticut Society of Genealogists, East Hartford, CT
• The Society of Genealogists, London, England
  

Author of journal articles:

1. Ward, Robert Leigh, "William Warman of Lyme and His Daughter Abigail (Warman) (Davis) (Mack) (Kelsey) Lay," The American Genealogist, vol. 48, no. 1 (Jan 1972), pp. 13- 18.
2. -----, "English Clues: Tyng, Coley, Cooley, and Seabrook," The American Genealogist, vol. 50, no. 2 (Apr 1974), pp. 92-96.
3. -----, "English Ancestry of Seven Mayflower Passengers: Tilley, Sampson and Cooper," The American Genealogist, vol. 52, no. 4 (Oct 1976), pp. 198-208.
4. -----, "Two Contemporaries Named Matthias Sension," The American Genealogist, vol. 53, no. 4 (Oct 1977), pp. 241-243.
5. -----, "Henry Sampson's Paternal Grandfather," The American Genealogist, vol. 56, no. 3 (Jul 1980), pp. 141-143.
6. -----, "Example of Using Probate Records," Rootbound, no. 6 (Nov-Dec 1983), pp. [3-6].
7. -----, "Further Traces of John Tilley of the Mayflower," The American Genealogist, vol. 60, no. 3 (Jul 1984), pp. 171-173.
8. -----, "The AIS Indexes: A New Genealogical Finding Aid," Rootbound, no. 15 (Nov-Dec 1984), pp. [9-11].
9. -----, "The Baronial Ancestry of Henry Sampson, Humility Cooper, and Ann (Cooper) Tilley," The Genealogist (New York), vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 1985), pp. 166-186.
10. -----, "Primary Sources," Rootbound, no. 21 (Nov-Dec 1985), n.p.
11. -----, "The John and Olive (Paterson) Jones Family," Rootbound, no. 30 (May-Jun 1987), pp. [7-13].
12. -----, "The Howard Dodge Family of Virginia," The American Genealogist, vol. 62, no. 3 (Jul 1987), pp. 178-179.
13. -----, "Was Your Ancestor a Quaker?" Rootbound, no. 32 (Sep-Oct 1987), pp. [13-14].
14. -----, "Primary Research Sources," Rootbound, no. 50 (Nov-Dec 1992), pp. 1, 3-4.
15. -----, "Primary Research Sources," The Family Tree, (May 1993), pp. 7-8.
16. -----, "Migration Patterns in Early Settlements -- Locating Ancestors," Rootbound, no. 3 (May-Jun 1993), pp. 6-8.
17. -----, "The English Origin and First Marriage of Deacon John-1 Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, vol. 71, no. 3 (Jul 1996), pp. 130-133.
18. -----, "Genealogy of the Future -- The Impact of Technology," Rootbound, vol. 16, no. 1 (Sep-Oct 1997), p. 4.
19. -----, "The Footloose Joshua-3 Whitney (1687-1771) and Some of His Descendants," The American Genealogist, vol. 74, no. 3 (Jul 1999), pp. 197-208.
20. -----, "How to Get Your Article Published," Rootbound, vol. 18, no. 3 (Mar-May 2000), pp. 1, 4
21. -----, "The Whitney Lineage of John-1 Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts" The American Genealogist, to appear in vol. 81, no. 4 (May 2006), pp. 249-262.