Hawley Family Genealogy:

The Society of the Hawley Family est 1923

I began searching for my ancestors in the 1980's. In doing research and traveling to family member's homesteads over the years, I have accumulated a lot of information and have placed most of it on the web. My grandmother, Emma Skeens Hawley (photo - died in 1984), was a great inspiration and source of knowledge when I first began to research. I am sure she would be happy to know I have stuck with it. It is assumed that most American Hawley families are descended from Joseph Hawley, the first emigrant from England in 1630, who settled in Stratford, Connecticut. I have documented my Hawley family, starting with my father, Ray Hawley, back to Calvin Hawley, g-g-g-grandson of Joseph Hawley. The Hawley Record, by Elias Hawley, documents the generations from Calvin Hawley back to Joseph Hawley. Over the years the Hawley's migrated from England to Connecticut (1620-1720), Massachusetts (1760), New York (1817), Pennsylvania (1840), Michigan (1854), Kansas (1877), Illinois (1940) and Florida (1958).
-Pam Hawley Marlin,   pam@dmarlin.com,

1920 Hawley Family Reunion in Kansas

New History Blog posts (January 2012):

-Lloyd Howard Hawley
-The Winston Churchill - Hawley family connection
-Centralia, Illinois, Historical Society Museum
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Salem, Illinois, Then & Now

On a recent trip to visit family in Salem, Illinois, I spent some time doing genealogy research and decided to try a few 'then & now' photos of family sites. The photo left is at my great uncle's antique shop in Salem. View more...

Fort Neck House

Photo left: Fort Neck House owned by the Jones Family of Long Island, New York. Photo taken before the house was destoyed in 1940.
During the Revolutionary War Captain David Hawley, from Bridgeport, Connecticut, and some volunteers raided the Fort Neck House of Long Island and kidnapped a Tory Judge, Thomas Jones, a loyalist. The house is located in Wassapequa, New York, and the property belonged to the prestigious Jones family of Long Island. More ...

Then & Now Project, Bringing the Past into the Present

Having seen the idea represented on several websites I couldn't resist the challenge of trying it myself. There is not a name for the technique (that I am aware) of placing an old photo in its present location and then taking another photo, but it is a great idea. I was able to use both old personal photos and old photos from where I work at the University of Florida to make the projects come together as seen in the websites below:

Family Then & Now

UF Then & Now