Laforest
[uncertain]
Leroy
(Laforrest)
Whitten
Born in Winn, Maine
Ancestors 
and Brother of
Bertwell Elber Whitten, Elmer Osgood Whitten, Mildred Agnes (Whitten) Pierce, Laura Trask Whitten, Louville Bragg Whitten, Evelyn May (Whitten) Covel and Raymond Merton Whitten
Husband of
Mabel I. Shaw
— married
11 Dec 1891 in Bangor Penobscot County Maine
Husband of
Elizabeth Lizzie (Rideout) Ebbett
— married
7 Jun 1904 in Bridgewater, Aroostook, Maine, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Gladys May Whitten, Bertwell Elber Whitten Sr., Madeline Viola Whitten and Orrin S. Whitten
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Oct 2014
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Biography
Laforest was born in Winn, Maine.[1]
According to records of Keith Whitten, the spelling of the first name is Laforrest and he was born in 1873.[2]
- Fact: Residence (1880) Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine, United States
- Fact: Residence (1910) Boston Ward 15, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
- Fact: Residence (1880) Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine, United States
- Fact: Residence (1910) Boston Ward 15, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7FT-DV8: 10 December 2014), Laforest Whitten in entry for Orrin S. Whitten, 08 Nov 1900; citing Watertown, Massachusetts, v 505 p 760, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,843,727
- ↑ Source needed.
- "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1907 ", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KC63-LHT: 27 December 2014), Laforest L Whitten in entry for Gladys May Whitten, 1892.
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org: modified 30 May 2019, 15:43), entry for Laforest Leroy (lafe) Whitten(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L67W-4YC); contributed by various users.
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org: modified 25 October 2017, 19:28), entry for Laforest Leroy Whitten(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L67W-4YC); contributed by various users.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Keith Whitten Sr. and Chris Whitten match on 37 out of 37 markers, as reported by Family Tree DNA. This confirms their direct paternal lines back to their MRCA Richard Whitten.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Laforrest by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Laforrest by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Chris Whitten
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #124309, MitoYDNA ID T10467 [compare] - Keith Whitten :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #502535
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~25.00%
Keith Whitten :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Terrence Willett :
23andMe, yourDNAportal TERf6130c5e
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