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The Whitmore et al surname project will use a variety of documents and techniques to delineate the various family lines. The ultimate goal, of course, is to determine, as scientifically as possible, the ancestry of each of the participants in the project. In the process, we will hopefully prove or disprove legends that have passed from one researcher to the next without proof. This will be, without a doubt, a long-term project!
- Each participant will have an accompanying pedigree, back to the furthest Whitmore (et al) ancestor. We will need to know what documentation has led to the conclusions in these pedigrees, and which links are strictly hypotheses. These hypotheses will become the subjects of the study.
- The administrators, with the help of any and all Whitmore (et al) researchers will seek participants for each of the identified family lines.
- As the DNA samples are analyzed, we will be able to confirm or disprove the hypotheses defined, and also to create new hypotheses.
Our sole testing company has been Family Tree DNA since since the inception of the project in 2005. We continue to recommend the FTDNA 37 marker test. This has been ample to differentiate the various family groups thus far, although we would like to consider expanding some of our tests to the 67 marker tests now offered by FTDNA. We now have two participants who have been tested by Ancestry, and we continue to follow Ancestry's progress in this field. We welcome participation by any male Whitmore et al, and will consider those tested by other reputatble labs. Please contact our Project Administrators if you would like to join us with results from another lab.
Whitmore Hall, Staffordshire, England
Built about 1670, this is probably the oldest Whitmore residence still standing.
Latest News-- September 2008
We are no longer using the DNA PAT program to display our test results. The author of this program is no longer updating it, and there is no way to display test results beyond the basic 37 marker FTDNA test. As we now have participants with extended markers from FTDNA, as well as participants from Ancestry, we had to seek a new way to display our test results. Dave Whitmore, one of our project administrators, and now our WebMaster, has spent many hours writing the code that is necessary to use a new SQL database. We are still using the basic 37 marker display for our main results page, but this offers alternative views for the extended markers.
We have updated TNG to the latest version, and Dave has modified the "front end" for this. After a lot of thought, we concluded that giving participant access to the administration part of TNG to upload their pedigrees was an unnecessary complication for participants. We ask, therefore, that you send your gedcom files to us to be uploaded. You will, after registering for an account on the TNG module, have access to change and modify your pedigree. Many of the links between the DNA Results pages and the Pedigrees are still to our old RootsWeb website because we lack the necessary gedcoms. We will be making specific requests to individuals for these. Please do not exclude source documentation from your gedcom files.
We've also added a new mailing list for the project and a photo uploading area for tree owners.
At the time of writing this, FTDNA is still under some stress trying to get back into full operation. When things have eased for them a bit we will make some changes in the requirements for joining the Whitmore DNA Project, by requiring that new participants furnish a gedcom file before they will be allowed to join.
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 We continue to use TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building) for our pedigree files. These may be browsed and viewed by any visitor to our web page. In order to enter and edit data, participants in the project, or their proxies, will need to register and be authorized to enter and edit data. Some links are still to our old pages at Roots Web.
Our WebMaster, Dave Whitmore, has written the software for a new "front end" for this program.
Links from our DNA Results pages to the Pedigrees are provided in two ways: 1) you may click on an individual's name and open a window, which as, among other features, a link to the most distant ancestor in his pedigree or 2) after selecting one of the matched groups you will find a link to the most distant ancestor of that group.
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We have ceased to use the DNA PAT program. Our DNA results are now presented it tables prepared using the MySQL database through software designed by Dave Whitmore.
Our documents and photographs will remain on the RootsWeb web site and may be reached from this home page.