b. 1944 in Manning, Alberta, I graduated in 1967 from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and worked in Toronto and area for 30+ years in technical support for mainframe, mini- and personal computers.

I began doing genealogy about 1985 when BBS first had their genealogy conferences and first had access to the internet email about 1993. I was collecting census info on Whiddens in Nova Scotia after having been given 10,000 names from previous Whidden researchers. I eventually linked up with a fellow researcher in Minnesota who was a descendant of John/NH/1662, brother to the Samuel I am descended from.

Together, we have compiled a Whidden/Whitten genealogy/family history of 2-vol. 1,650+ pages and have printed 20 copies in a Cerlox bound edition. Currently getting ready (as of April 2010) to publish copies in hard cover and offer them for sale. Inquiries about the book can be addressed to email below.

I also have done y-DNA-67 marker test and match three known cousins, have done mt-DNA full genealogical sequence and have ten other U6a3 distant cousins but no close matches and am awaiting results for FTDNA family finder test which test five generations on all ancestral lines.

I've become the only Genlighten volunteer in Alberta and can access whatever is in the local libraries, provincial archives, Edmonton city archives and Edmonton branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society. see www.genlighten.com

Cheers, Ray

b. 1944 in Manning, Alberta, I graduated in 1967 from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and worked in Toronto and area for 30+ years in technical support for mainframe, mini- and personal computers.

I began doing genealogy about 1985 when BBS first had their genealogy conferences and first had access to the internet email about 1993. I was collecting census info on Whiddens in Nova Scotia after having been given 10,000 names from previous Whidden researchers. I eventually linked up with a fellow researcher in Minnesota who was a descendant of John/NH/1662, brother to the Samuel I am descended from.

Together, we have compiled a Whidden/Whitten genealogy/family history of 2-vol. 1,650+ pages and have printed 20 copies in a Cerlox bound edition. Currently getting ready (as of April 2010) to publish copies in hard cover and offer them for sale. Inquiries about the book can be addressed to email below.

I also have done y-DNA-67 marker test and match three known cousins, have done mt-DNA full genealogical sequence and have ten other U6a3 distant cousins but no close matches and am awaiting results for FTDNA family finder test which test five generations on all ancestral lines.

I've become the only Genlighten volunteer in Alberta and can access whatever is in the local libraries, provincial archives, Edmonton city archives and Edmonton branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society. see www.genlighten.com

Cheers, Ray