Hawkins DNA project: April 2023

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Thomas Lowery Hawkins b. 1812 Russell County, VA

We had a researcher reach out to us this week about his mother's Hawkins line:

Here is what Sean says:

My mother was a Hawkins and her line goes back to Thomas Lowery Hawkins b. 1812 Russell,Va.
I was wondering if anyone from this group traces their line back to Thomas Lowery? His father may have been James T. Hawkins b.1772?

Here are the documents that Sean has sent for his Thomas Lowery Hawkins:

Sean asks for help if anyone knows more about this family. You can get in touch with him at

scw1972@gmail.com

Sunday, April 2, 2023

Hawkins Heritage Newsletters

Phil Hawkins produced Newsletters for several years when he was Administrator of the Hawkins yDNA project. When I agreed to be administrator, I told Phil that I had not even managed to write one article for his newsletters every month. I knew that it was beyond my capabilities to produce an entire newsletter. There is a lot of excellent information in the newsletters! If you find time to browse and find articles about your own family group, I would love to add a link to that specific newsletter on to this blog site. Just send me a link to the article and I will try to add it with a title o family group so it can be easily accessed by others. This will be a kind of indexing project that we can all work on.

My e-mail is mosesm@earthlink.net

Here is the link to the home page for Phil's website. Use the header to choose to view the newsletters from this page:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/genealogy/index.html

Hawkins DNA

I hope that this blog will be a place for researchers who have interest in the Hawkins surname can chat and present thoughts about the particular line of Hawkins families that they look at.

Phil Hawkins maintains a wonderful website that you do not want to miss!

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/genealogy/tree_g-1.html

I think that you will find Phil’s site more organized and easier to navigate than a blog tends to be. However, use the search box on this blog to zero in on posts that are about your DNA group. I will try to label each post with the DNA group that is being discussed unless I think that it is a post that is relevant to everyone.

This blog is not meant to replace Phil's site. This blog is more like Phil's more informal newsletter where you are invited to chat about ideas you have about your Hawkins research regardless of which DNA group you match.

I also encourage you to read the archived messages on the Hawkins mail list. Better yet, you may want to subscribe if you are not already a subscriber. The Hawkins mail list is a rootsweb mail list and has the advantage that many people read the posts and that all of the posts are archived and are fully searchable. I personally have made contact with many people who have given me a great deal of help with my own Hawkins line through that mail list. I do not mean for the blog to replace the mail list either. Instead I mean for this blog to enhance the mail list as I can place photos and maps and illustrations on the blog that give more meaning to the mail list posts. Rootweb mail lists can not accept photos, maps nor illustrations.

Please send me anything that you would want to share with the world about your own Hawkins DNA group. This can include your research that you would want to share. It can include questions that you would want to ask. I will work on this little by little for the next year. Please be patient. I am just like you. I have limited time. I have great interest, but my non-genealogical life limits what I can accomplish. If we find that this format is not helpful, we'll try something else.

I welcome your input! I welcome your criticism! I welcome any editing that you can do for me! Send me your ideas, and we'll work on them together! Many of you are already my good buddies. I look forward to your help in continuing the hard work that Phil has done so far.

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Thomas Lowery Hawkins b. 1812 Russell County, VA

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