THE WHITESIDE FAMILY ASSOCIATION

The Directors and Officers of the Association are all volunteers. There are no paid employees. Please check About Us and the sub-menu Contact Us to see the list of Association Officers.

All Directors are very active and donate a great amount of their time for the betterment of the Association.

The Association is a bonafide USA Charitable C3 organization and all membership fees and donations go to the work of the Association.

The Whiteside Family Association had established a Foundation for the continuing future benefit of the Association. The proceeds of the Foundation will go toward the work of the Association as decided by a representative committe made up of donors and directors. A bequest in your will to the Foundation would be apreciated.

MISSION

The WFA is a non-partisan, non -profit, and non-governmental organization of Whiteside kindred along with numerous intermarried families. Its mission is to promote educational as well as research activites along with distribution of those materials generated from these activites.

OBJECTIVES

Article II: Objectives

Section A

1. Provide a national organization through which descendants of multiple surname family groups and descendants of associated intermarriage families of 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century immigrant families and the members of this organization can exchange and share family heritages.

2. Train how to research and use genealogical software to document and distribute to the general public their respective family heritages and the members of this organization.

3. Promote through public lectures, seminars, conferences, tutorials, educational workshops, family reunions, historic educational field trips, educational work projects and other educational activities as approved by the WFA interest in our respective immigrant heritages.

4. Generate, encourage, and foster the mutual interests and opportunities for the local community who are, or who may become, interested in learning about their family history and associated intermarriages with other families including contributions these families made to local, state and national history.

5. Strengthen the ties of fellowship and kinship between members of the various surname family lineages and maintain family unity of the members through public educational activities.

6. Teaching how to gather, document and preserve family history information by lecturing and participating in periodic and annual family reunions open to the public.

7. Emulate and honor the family forebears by providing educational training of how to properly prepare, organize and preserve genealogical documentation of one’s paternal and maternal family lineage.

8. Train others how to do genealogical collecting, preserving, documenting and distributing to the local community and local, regional, and state public libraries and archives of 17th, 18 and 19th century immigrant family heritages.

9. Store and make available to the genealogical community and the public any and all genealogical and historical information gathered, edited and published under Article II in a public location as specified and agreed upon by the WFA.

10. Evaluate and provide encouragement, cooperation, and donations to other worthy and qualified organizations under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code with purposes similar to this Corporation as approved by the WFA.

Section B – Prohibited Activities

1. No private Inurnment. No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to its members, trustees, officers, or other private persons, except that the Corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 1 of this Article II from funds accumulated through donations, gifts, grants and fund raisers. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these articles, this organization shall not carry on any activities not permitted to be carried on by an organization exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law

2. No lobbying. No substantial part of the activities of the Corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the Corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. Not with standing any other provision of this document, the organization shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (a) by an organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or corresponding section of any future tax code.

3. Other. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, this Corporation shall not, except to An insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of the purposes of the Corporation as set forth in Article II, section 1 hereof.