Hanks & Lincoln Lineage Debate Solved With the Use of DNA

The following excerpt is from an article posted November 3, 2015 at the USA Today website.

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OSHKOSH, Wis. — Vicky Reany Paulson has known all her life that she is related to Abraham Lincoln.

But it wasn’t until she was 16 that she became interested in tracing her roots to the 16th president — more specifically through his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln — and inherited the passion from her great-grandmother.

“I would ask the relatives how we were related, and they would just say through the Hanks,” the 59-year-old Oshkosh resident said.

Paulson, who has written two books about the Hanks family and its connection to Lincoln, says she is thrilled after a new study has solved a 150-year-old mystery surrounding the true identity of Nancy Hanks Lincoln’s mother.

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About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

One Reply to “Hanks & Lincoln Lineage Debate Solved With the Use of DNA”

  1. Related thru Thomas L & Constant Burt, Richard Cobb. Maurice Cobb & Pearl Slade parents. Thomas L 1656 & Mary Stacey 1658 daughter, Constant 1658. Constant Burt 1728 & Nathaniel Burt 1692, had Constant Burt 1728, who Mar, Richard Cobb 1717

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