SURNAMES

Whiteside, Whitesides, Whyteside, Whitsitt, Whitsett, Whitside, and many more variations.
Have you ever wondered where surnames came from? Why and When. Here is one idea. Click that Read more down below.

We have begun collecting contributions of ancestor photographs and posting them to a temporary gallery. You can visit the gallery by clicking the link below.

Temporary Ancestor Photo Gallery

Submitters, please review the information attached to your photos to ensure there are no mixups. Also, if information is incomplete, please ensure the following info is included:

• Name, (maiden name)
• Approx photo date
• Approx photo location
• Submitter's name
• family number,
• One or two sentence history (a complete history will be available by clicking a link)
• Link to history document on whitesideancestry.org

Please email complete info by clicking here. Make sure the name of the photo subject is referenced in your email.

If you have questions or need help, please use the same email form.

HOW MANY WHITESIDE FAMILIES AND VARIATIONS OF THE NAME ARE THERE IN THE WORLD? We know there were 9285 Whiteside families for a population of 21,313 population in 1994 according to the UK's Burke's Peerage
For more information on Whiteside family data, go to Read More.    

New: USA Charts are online. We have just put up the charts for 47 of the USA families. Many families have more than one chart, Family 3400 has 74 pages of charts. They are not indexed but you can print and search them yourself. Go to Member's Research - Family Tree Charts - USA Family Tree Charts.

NEW: County Tyrone, Northern Ireland charts by Don Whiteside are now online in Member's Research - FamilyTree Charts - Tyrone. They are also included in the updated WFA Master Index under Source TYR. Go to Member's Research - Family Tree Charts - WFA New Master Chart Index.

The minutes of the Annual Meeting and the Director's meeting in Branson Missouri of October 2/3 2009 are now available for you to read. Go to the "WFA Activities" menu and then to "Past Meeting Minutes."

STRONG PASSWORD NEEDED FOR LOGIN. We have updated the website with new security and systems. If you have a weak password you may not be able to log in. We have sent you a temporary password to be able to log in. After logging in please change your password to a strong password Please read the following if you can not log in. Stong Password needed.

Not a member? If you are a family researcher you are missing the charts that we are putting on the  Research part of the website. If you are from the USA you are now really missing much more. The example is Family #0705 with data on the Michigan members of the family. There are 47more USA charts some with more than 40 charts for one family. A gold mine for researchers.  
What are Family Numbers? Don Whiteside,created a filing card system of some 30,000 names covering all variations of our family name. These went into Tree Charts an estimated 1600 families charts. We are so lucky to have such a system!

FAMILY CHART/TREE BOOKS:

For Members we have a WFA MASTER CHART INDEX that contains 2000 records of 1200 plus Family Numbers. (Some family numbers have many pages that cover just one family).  Members may go to two different sources for data:
Members's Research -Family Tree Charts (all charts that are onl the website) and also Family Genealogies, ( Narrative documentation and Descendant Charts)

At our Branson Annual Gathing, President Bill Whiteside gave an interesting talk on the journey of our particular ancestors from deepest Africa to the United Kingdom. This was based on DNA that has been accumulated over the past years. Bill has started the story using his own experience as the beginning.

Go to Read More to read a condensation of Bill's story.