Records of Albert Whitney on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Albert Whitney in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Albert Whitney and the Whitney Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Whitney Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Whitney family tree.

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Whitney Family History Databases

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Whitney Forums

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Miscellaneous Whitney Databases

Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Albert Whitney. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Albert Whitney

Albert Wurts Whitney

Albert Wurts Whitney (20 June 1870, Geneva, Illinois – 27 July 1943) was a statistician and actuarial scientist, known for his role in the application of Bayes' rule to the development of standards in setting insurance premiums for workmen's compensation. He was a pioneer in accident prevention work and public safety education.

The son of the Yale alumnus Reverend Henry Mitchell Whitney, Albert W. Whitney was part of the Dwight family of New England. He graduated from Beloit College in 1891 and married Martha Reynolds Bill in 1899.

From to 1922 to 1924 Whitney was the chair of the American Engineering Standards Committee. In 1924 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Toronto.

Source: Albert Wurts Whitney, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Whitney

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