The Family Genealogist

Have you ever been to a genealogy website? They're everywhere. Someone decides they are going to do the family a favor and chronicle it's history with no idea how much confusion they are going to cause by their efforts. Sometimes what results can be a disaster, particularly if the chronicler is basing his or her information on the partial memories of someone who has no memories left. I've seen some of those sites and I'm sure you have as well.

Then there is the "everybody arrived riding white horses" website... All the history is purged and purified. There were are no black sheep ... not even any gray ones.

In our family we have a great genealogical website. The person who runs it is top notch. Ironically, Claudia Carson, who compiles the Whitehead family history, is a "yankee" and runs the website from her home on Long Island in New York. She has many insights into Blount County just from the experience she has in compiling our family history.

Claudia's secret is that she is non-exclusionary. In other words she has made a decision to include everyone who goes by the family surname. Our family website is full of photographs, stories, and bits of information that relate to our family and other closely related surnames. Our chronicler's methods are scientific and to the best of my knowledge - accurate. Claudia would not claim to be a professional genealogist, but by her actions and discipline, you have no doubt that the history she is compiling is authentic.

There are photographs at our site that you won't find anywhere else. While I've been under the weather, I've explored some of many pages of family history that Claudia Carson has compiled on the Whitehead family. She has located Whiteheads from all over the United States and has made contacts with some in other countries... all from her little home in Long Island...

The website is protected and if you are interested in taking a peek, contact me at miket@thomsontalks.com.