Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1784-1818)

Another interesting resource:

http://www.wvculture.org/history/notewv/hanks.html

Really wishing that "The Hanks Family of Virginia and Westward" by Adin Baber was online...

Burn-out approaching... probably going to give it a couple days rest (still have to finish up the timeline for Rebecca Nurse and family), and then try again. Maybe I'll have better keywords for Google imagined by then.

I re-attached Lucy Hanks as the mother of Nancy Hanks. I'll stop there for now until we can reach a consensus on what this part of the tree is supposed to look like.

I've added a bunch of Hanks and Hankins to the Project and did a big bibliography of previous Lincoln / Hanks genealogical research.

What's intriguing me is the Sparrow family connection so I think that family should be added to the Project as well. Also, interested in relating Hanks to Hankins (or proving they are separate families). I suspect we would have to go back England for that.

Have we tracked Hanks to Tom Hanks?

Tom Hanks

It's an interesting question... in some versions apparently you can. But there are so many different versions...

Getting closer to being done with the Nurse family... after that, I can start to look the connections over again with less pressure. But you (or someone) might want to look over what Mimi has done and verify her work (attach references to documentation for his line). It looks like she has done a reasonably good job of the trace.

Last night I merged all the duplicates for Tom Hanks and his Hanks ancestors but I could not connect them to Lucy Hanks. Wikipedia states that they are related but doesn't say how.

PS
I just found one more Tom Hanks duplicate on the big tree that I missed last night and have merged him with the MP Tom Hanks. I don't have time to merge all the ancestors right now though (at work).

Still "Nursing"... if it hasn't been done by the time I get done with the Nurses (Salem Witch Trials), I'll see about jumping in on that... (may take a few days - just found a day-by-day chronicle to work with on the timeline there)

I expect great things from your witch. Be sure and show her off.

Read the PDF file Meg Verner posted. It's pretty convincing to me.

Hi Erica: If you are referring to the Genealogy Today one, I think I did look at that... there was one that looked quite convincing but lacked the documentation level I would hope for. In any case, I'm probably going to stick with "Nurse-ing" for now, because I'm too easily distracted and I'd like to get done with the Nurse profiles before making further guesses on which Hanks rumor to back.

LOL. Finish the witch! I need to pick a couple to build out before Halloween too.

Erica,
Who is your "Hankins Quaker ancestor in TN."? Is it Richard H. 1733 -1800 of New Market, TN. OR William H. died 1824 in Greene County?

I am administrator of HANKINS DNA project. We have documented a HANKINS - HANKS connection that occurs probably back in UK before 1600.

Can you send me the link to your DNA project? Actually - publish it here, please!

My personal Hankins is not proven; I am SURE up to my 3rd great grandmother, Nancy Howton (1805-1836) The profile is not well sourced but other Howton researchers have long since verified the marriage and children.

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Since you're all working in this area...

I just inadvertently became curator of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA's profile. No one was listed as curator on the main page (how does that happen on MPs?), so when I clicked on the curator options to see if it was listed there, I winded up filling the gap.

If someone who actually knows about the line would like to take it over -- or better yet, if the original person curating it wants it back -- please please do so! :)

www.familytreedna.com/projects/