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Chris Whitten

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Mr. Chris I. Whitten
Born 1970's.

Profile manager: Chris Whitten | Account confirmed 3 August 2010 | Chris has made 15884 contributions | Last profile change on 1 September 2010
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Chris is the creator of this website, WikiTree, as well as WikiAnswers, Free-Market.Net, and other websites.

You can e-mail him at chris -at- wikitree.com (replace the -a- with @).


Chris grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with his mother Donna and brother Ted. His father Ted and step-mother Vicki were in the nearby town of Ashby.

In 1989 he graduated from Fitchburg High School and started at Lyndon State College in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. After two years in the small business program there he transferred to New York University to study economics. He graduated from NYU in 1993.

After college he stayed in New York City and worked as the managing editor of a mail order book catalog called Laissez Faire Books. Before Amazon.com this was the only source for many unusual books on libertarian philosophy and free-market economics. In 1994, he started experimenting with the Internet to sell books for Laissez Faire. The e-mail update list he created there was one of the first of its kind.

In 1995 Chris left his job to create a libertarian community and networking site called Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network (FMN). This site has been called "the mother of all libertarian websites" for its early work in promoting usage of the Internet among free-market organizations and individuals.

In 1997 he created a non-profit organization in Chicago called The Henry Hazlitt Foundation to be a home for FMN and its newer sister sites including libertarian.org, ifeminists.com and Bureaucrash. The foundation grew to employ five people full-time and more than a dozen people part-time.

In 2000 Chris met Megan McClellan who was finishing her math degree at the University of Chicago.

In 2001 Chris retired from his non-profit work to be more entrepreneurial again. And to pay off his student loans.

In 2002 Chris created FAQ Farm, which later became WikiAnswers. It is a collaborative question and answer site where users can ask a question about anything and other users help answer them. The Q&As become permanent resources so that the same question never has to be asked twice.

In 2004 Chris moved back from Chicago to New York City. Megan was offered a job on Wall Street. The next year, in 2005, Megan was offered a job in London and they took that opportunity to see Europe.

In 2006 Chris and Megan returned from England. They bought a home in Croton-on-Hudson in northern Westchester County, NY.

Late that year Chris sold his WikiAnswers business to Answers.com. During 2007 he worked with Answers.com to integrate the site into their company and take advantage of the new economies of scale.

In both 2007 and 2008 WikiAnswers was the fastest growing site among the largest US websites. It is now a top 25 website and gets over three million visitors per day.

In 2008 Chris began work on this site, WikiTree.

[Note: The memories (1), photos (195) and family tree for Chris are not public.]

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On September 1, Lennie Hotz wrote:

Help! I accidentally put a person's husband as her father. Can't figure out how to fix this.


On August 31, An anonymous user at 24.75.111.12 wrote:

Chris, Are you aware there is a google ad for Tom Perriello on the Federalist Papers page? Living in Perriello's congressional district, I can tell you, he has brazenly trampled the Constitution for 2 years now. To see an ad for a Big Government operator like Tom on such a great site like the Federalist Papers page is disturbing to say the least.


On August 30, An anonymous user at 32.178.203.38 wrote:

I hope that you can help me Chris!! I created my page, however when I went back the folling day to add more information. Somewhere along the line I messed up big time. I am not able to access my page at all. And I also made another page all by accident. I wish to have the last page under my name removed, and I need your helping being able to access my correct page. thannks in advance!


On August 26, An anonymous user at 24.187.10.213 wrote:

Dear Chris:

I have in my possession from Time Magazine, I believe articles dated April 30, 1945 with actual pics of gas chamber victims and an article writtne by aughtor Dr. Wolfgang Kraus entitled "the Factory of Death"
Can you help me?

regards,
Cindy Wright


On August 18, Alaina Raymer wrote:

Actually, yes I do have a question. My sister wants to edit some information I posted. How can she do that?


On August 5, Rosemary Matthews wrote:

Chris, as you may have noticed I've entered more on my Family Tree recently and invited a few.
The one thing I didn't like in the past about Wiki Tree is I hadn't found a way to see descendant trees, just ancestor trees. But Chris wrote of the little icons next to a name on the Family Tree - clicking on that lets you see an outline descendant tree! Thanks, Chris.
BUT it's great for direct line ancestor lists. Pictures don't show for all the generations available but can be seen by clicking on someone closer to that generation.
So far I'm sticking with entering only those I have photos for... I have so many on my family tree files.
I am making one exception to the photo plan - I'm entering my DAR line back to the revolution because it's documented. How about that.
Rosemary Matthews Ward-92


On August 8, Lisa Foltz wrote:

Need help. Made a mistake and ended up with two profiles for same person. Went to delete - - suggests to merge. Tried to merge, won't let me (redirect profile?). Can't figure out how to fix. please help.
lisa foltz


On July 30, Maddie Ostrand wrote:

Chris, Just wanted to note Lindas death and I think I screwed up by eliminating her as my daughter on my page. Help this old senile grandmother if I'm not too far gone. Maddie


On July 28, Tom Casey wrote:

Hi Chris,
Thanks for welcoming me. The site has turned from fun to slightly obsessive for me, but I really do enjoy it. If I have any suggestions I will certainly pass them along--as a creative director I love evaluating this type of experience and would love to pass along any ideas I may have.

Great job on this site!


On July 27, Otis Carroll wrote:

Hi Chris, We want our family members to be able to see the family reunion website. How do we get the web address so we can send it in the letters we write to each family member?




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