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Add Your ‘s Administrator: [email protected] Newsletter – 31 January 2012 Join the Hawkins Worldwide DNA Project! www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Hawkins&Code=Z47192 Material from Bits and Pieces of the Hawkins Family Puzzle by Millie Farmer Articles Page is presented in this issue. It is reprinted, with permission, from the former Assistant Administrators 1 publication, Hawkins Heritage, edited by Olyve Hallmark Abbott, who Genealogy Gems 1 published it with permission from Mrs. Farmer. This information is Hawkins Family Group 01 2 printed as submitted by the Hawkins Heritage editor. Hawkins Family Group 02 3 Hawkins Family Group 04 4 Hawkins Family Group 07 7 I am copying seven pages of Bits and Pieces... in this issue from the 26th & Hawkins Family Group 14 7 27th editions of the Hawkins Heritage, December 1995 and April 1996. The Bits & Pieces 10 names include “Ulyesses” - “Z”. I encourage you to submit a rejoinder to any error in fact that you see in these reproduced pages. Please note the addition of the South African flag in our masthead, signifying the addition of a new participant born there. Check out the genealogy wiki at http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Main_Page. VERY interesting. If you have added anything there, please contact me with what you did. We need to have an Assistant Administrator for each of our Family groups. It is just no longer possible for me to provide the attention to the individual family groups as I have tried to in the past. It is not necessary that the Group Administrator be a testing participant, just a keen interest in advancing the knowledge within their family group. The family Groups that we have identifed that do not have a leader are 03, 06, 09, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, and 21. Your help is needed. Please contact me. Phil Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library, No. 95, January 31, 2012 [WHY, Phillip, are you including these “Office” how-to tips in a genealogy newsletter? I know a lot of you are raising that question every time you open the newsletter. The answer - When I transitioned from Office 2003 direct to 2010 I was lost. I am a pretty smart feller, so I knew that there were other lost souls out there in newsletter land. So, I’m helpin.] Technology Tip of the Month--The Microsoft Word 2010 Ribbon: Mailings and Review Tabs by Kay Spears. Let’s look at the Mailings tab first. There are three tools of interest on this tab: Envelopes, Labels and Mail Merge. I will describe the first two here: Envelopes and Labels. Both of these are fairly simple tools. Envelopes: When the Envelopes dialog box is open, you will notice boxes labeled “Delivery address” and “Return address." All you need do is enter the correct addresses in each box and print. However, if you are using an envelope with a return address already printed on it, you will want to leave the return address box blank or make sure the “Omit” box is checked. To change the size of the envelope, select “Options.” Labels: First, open the Labels dialog box, go to “Options,” select the kind of label you will be printing, 1 and click “OK.” The Labels dialog box will return. If you are printing only one label, enter the “Address,” then select “Single label” and the appropriate “Row” and “Column” in the “Print” box. If you want to print an entire sheet of labels with the same address, enter the “Address,” then select “Full page of the same label” in the “Print” box. If you want to print an entire sheet of labels, each with a different address, click on “New Document.” This will open an entire page of blank labels on which you may enter addresses. Or, you may use Mail Merge instead. I will cover mail merges in the next article. Now, let’s look at the Review tab. This is where Microsoft has located the Proofing tools most often used in reviewing documents. Included are Spelling and Grammar, Research, Thesaurus, and Word Count. The Review tab also contains a Tracking tool, which I suggest that you use sparingly. While this tool may help you keep track of changes, sometimes it can create confusion and frustration for the person who will be receiving your document. Next month: The Microsoft Word 2010 Ribbon: The Joys of Mail Merge The following was an ISOOG post by Ann Turner. I did read it and thought some of you would have an interest. The article is entitled, “The scientists behind Mitochondrial Eve tell us about the "lucky mother" who changed human evolution forever” This is an interview with two of the scientists who published the article in Science, January 1987 (Rebecca Cann and Mark Stoneking; Allan Wilson died in 1991). When you read about the tools they had at their disposal, it was quite a tour de force. Ann Turner 1/28/2012 http://io9.com/5879991/the-scientists-behind-mitochondrial-eve-tell-us-about-the-lucky-mother-who changed-human-evolution-forever --------------------***---***----------------- Input from our Hawkins Family Groups. The family pages are found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html. Hawkins Family Group-01 (Group Administrator is Marsha Moses, [email protected].) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html#Group-01 It is with great sadness that the Hawkins DNA group #1 reports the death of Hawkins DNA Participant #11301. James Robert Hawkins The last photo is the Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of James and Juanita Edward Hawkins. Back row died 18 (standing) are: sister-in-law Aline Edwards Pruet (1923-2009) and her husband Woodfin Pruet (1915- December 2011. 2003); brother Jefferson Hawkins (1922-2008); sister Carolyn Hawkins Palmer (1931-2004); sister Betty He was born on Hawkins Norton (1927-2007) and her husband Robert Norton (1916-2011); widow of brother Don, 15 February Jean Hamblin Hawkins (1925-2004). Front row (sitting) are: widow of brother Bill, Bea McAteer (1931- 1918 the sixth 2010); James Hawkins (1915-2011) and his bride of fifty years Juanita Edwards Hawkins (1918-2001); and wife of brother Jeff in the back row, Elizabeth Stewart Hawkins (1924-2010). child (twelve 2 total) of Clara B Lewis (1886-1968) and Harry Wilmer Hawkins (1883-1966) in Birmingham, Alabama. An older brother, Clifford Wilmer, died as an infant before age one. James was gravely underweight as a young child. With the constant care of his mother and three older sisters, James grew to adulthood in the Fairview and Glen Iris neighborhoods of Birmingham. James graduated from Ramsey High School and was mechanically inclined. He enlisted as a marine early in WWII serving as a plane mechanic for much of the war, including the Black Sheep Squadron made famous by Pappy Boyington. In the midst of the war in the Pacific, his sweetheart Juanita Edwards traveled to Los Angeles to stay at a "Women's" hotel for one night. The next day the couple was married at City Hall, Los Angeles. Building their home with his own hands in Forestdale (then county), Jimmy and Juanita raised five children who all remain in the Birmingham area: Dr. Don (Kathy) Hawkins, Suzi Hawkins, Becky Hawkins Usher, Paul (Theresa) Hawkins, and John Hawkins. After the war Jim worked for Southern Railroad and then Northern Southern as a fireman and later Jimmy, Clara, Harry, & Jeff – WW II engineer. He engineered both steam and diesel locomotives. The last steam locomotive moved in Alabama from a train yard to a museum yard, was driven by James Hawkins, selected for his long time service and knowledge about those trains. His youngest son, John, follows in his father's footsteps at the railroad. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife of over fifty years, Juanita Edwards Hawkins (1918-2001), and all five of his brothers and six of his sisters and their spouses (two died as children Clifford (1909-1911) and Marian(1920-1928)), The six remaining children of Harry & Clara Stanley (Lillian Copeland) Hawkins (1911- Hawkins at sister Marjorie’s funeral in 1986. 1976), Jefferson (Elizabeth Stewart) Hawkins (1922-2008), Donald (Jean Hamblin) Hawkins (1924-1989), William (Bea McAteer) Hawkins (1929-1979), Dorothy Hawkins (1907- 1990), Ruth (Bill) Hawkins Shively (1913-1980), Margie (Summers) Hawkins Needham (1915-1986), Betty (Robert) Hawkins Norton (1927-2007), and Carolyn Hawkins Palmer (1931-2004), all originally of Birmingham. See the Hawkins DNA web site for more on James Robert #11301. Hawkins Family Group-02 (Group Administrator is Bob Hawkins, [email protected]) (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html#Group-02) Our earliest ancestor is William Hawkins of Orange County, VA. Other lines in successive generations are: Jehu Dyer, Burton, Bluford and Joseph Ferguson. As of the date of submission of this article we are unable to link any of the different lines in our group. We also have a new participant with the name of Kirkpatrick that matches us on 37 of 37 markers. In all of the Hawkins groups that participate we probably have more issues than any of them. I have scanned many records trying to link at least one line with no success. Many records still need to be scanned for that magic link. For us DNA testing could be the answer, but we need participants to step up. FT-DNA has run many specials, but participants are not stepping up. Please encourage Hawkins descendents to get tested. 3 Hawkins Family Group-04 (My, your editor’s, family group, [email protected].): Earliest known common ancestors are Jeffery and Dorothy (Mattock) Hawkins, emigrating from Wilts, England in 1682 to Bucks Co., PA.