Re: HAWKINS Ancestry and DNA
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Re: HAWKINS Ancestry and DNA
Jim Bartlett 9/08/12
Thanks Jim for your quick reply.
I went to the Hawkins Project pages and located #77663 whose line you connect to through the FF Test.That is family group #1.I have several FF cousin matches to family group #7, and their dates, names, and photos, first drew me to this family group and I felt it was my Hawkins lineage.Low and behold my Hawkins Y-DNA is in an unmatched group and we have very close matches to Gibbs. I believe it was 1 marker off from a Gibbs and 2 off from other Gibbs.I have found Gibbs men around my Hawkins before the 1850 census. The Gibbs Surname project does not want to take us, which I find odd, when we have such a close match at 67 markers. The surname didn't match!How absurd is that when we match by DNA?I have come to the conclusion that for whatever reason a Hawkins woman had a son by a Gibbs man and that son carried her maiden Hawkins name down through not to many distant generations.I just this week verified another Family Finder cousin connection to more Hawkins in Howell Co., MO b. early 1800's which I believed were mine. Yeah!My name would not be familiar to you in the FF matches because, I used another name and also my Hawkins Aunt's name.Also my matches are showing to that family group #7 which I like to refer to as the Philemon Hawkins line.I have heard rumors that this line is the Sir Richard Hawkins, son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins line.
I wish even more people who are serious about genealogy would get involved with DNA testing! It is so worth it!
Happy hunting,
Cheyenne
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Re: HAWKINS Ancestry and DNA
Jim Bartlett 9/08/12