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You have reached the official Research Web Site of the
Hanna-Heastie-Tynes Family which although now
spread throughout the world, is primarily based in
the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. While the site was initially
developed to follow the Hanna-Heastie-Tynes family of the
Bahamas it includes significant information on the
Farquharsons, Fergusons, Rolles, Williams, and other
historically notable Bahamian families. The web site
attempts to document and chronicle current,
historical and genealogical information on these
Families. We invite you to look around and provide
additional information which you may have to help
update and authenticate information on the Families.
You may help to update the information by inputting
your information through the Registrations
section of the site on the link above.
This site is maintained through the auspices of
The Harvic Center of
the Hannaian Research Institute in Nassau Bahamas. The Harvic
Center under its Initiative for the
Protection of Indigenous Intellectual Property (IPIIP) is currently conducting research on some
of the important historical aspects of the region and its indigenous
families. The importance of Watlings/San Salvador, Acklins, Crooked
Island, & Long Cay, Long Island, and Inagua, and the history of
their people is currently being researched in the IPIIP long term study
entitled "The Historical Roots of The Southern Bahamas After
Columbus" (HRSBAC).
The Southern Bahamian islands occupied an
important historical and economic component of the early development
of the Bahamas beginning with Christopher Columbus and his first
landfall in the western hemisphere at San Salvador, and the
subsequent discovery, development, and utilization of the Crooked
Island Passage as a premier shipping lane in the development
of the Western World.
Click here
for more information on the HRSBAC research study.
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St. Aidens Anglican Church
...the
historical Family church and center of the
Family's religious and other activities in
Pompey Bay Acklins. It sits between the
Big Yard (Hanna's) and the Tynes Yard. The
front of the church faces West toward the
Hannas with the Eastern end of the church
towards the Tynes. The Northern side of
the church sits along Bay Road next to the
beach. The formal entrance to the church
yard is located on Bay Road. The Church is
surrounded by a rock wall as was most
important structures in the
area.
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Family Genealogy
Publications Updates
The latest version of the Hanna-Heastie-Tynes
Genealogy "Hanna Heastie Tynes, Genealogy Update 2006"
is available from
Association President Peggy Knowles in the Bahamas (242)
328-3601, or from Miami and Family Historian Gwen Welters
(305) 635-2398.
The Book was published by the Hannaian
Publishing Co., and compiled by Dr. Harlington L. Hanna Jr.,
in tribute to the late Garvin Tynes for his dedication and
work in establishing the first published genealogical works on
the Family.
The Book contains more than 140 pages of
narrative and outline genealogical information and is an
abridged version specially published for 2006 reunion
attendees, who were able to purchase the book at the special
price of $35.
The book was partially funded by the
U.S. Family Organization in Miami headed by a special
committee of Aldin Hanna, Mize Hanna, and Gwen Welters which
covered the expenses for the printing.
For additional information on available
publications, prices and availability please click here.
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Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay,
& Family Updates
Please visit
The Hanna Heastie Tynes Group at www.afrogenes.com to
submit genealogical and historical updates and to
participate in the Afrogenes.com genealogical community. You
will have to register on Afrogenes.com to see all of the
information. Registration is quick free and easy.
Please Support The Development & Maintenance of this Site
The development and maintenance
of this website, its content, and the associated database is a major undertaking
involving many hours of updating, research and archiving.
We appreciate any contribution you may provide to these
efforts. You may
contribute by clicking the Donate button below:
Hanna-Heastie-Tynes Bahamas President Peggy Knowles
and members of the Family Reunion Committee
presenting The Hon. Perry Christie, Prime Minister
of the Bahamas with a copy of the family crest on
the first day of the 2004 Reunion. The Prime
Minister is a member of the family, his wife and
first lady of the Bahamas is Mrs. Bernadette Hanna
Christie (not pictured).
Click Here For More
Reunion Information
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This site is the primary Genealogical and Historical
Research Internet Site for the Hanna Heastie Tynes Family
originating in the Bahamas. A major portion of its services
are conducted through and in conjunction with
www.afrogenes.com
Please visit
The Hanna Heastie Tynes Group at www.afrogenes.com to
see additional research, photo galleries and archives on the
family and to submit online information to the genealogical
database. You will have to register on Afrogenes.com to see
all of the information. Registration is quick free and easy.
There are also several facebook and other Internet sites
with information on the Family.
Reunion Information
The 2014 Family Reunion will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina
For further information contact
Marilyn Gool
(704) 676-5193
rgool2@carolina.rr.com
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Reminder To Provide &
Update Your Genealogy Info
Work is continuing on our
genealogy database. Please provide or update genealogical
information on your line of the family. This is extremely
important if you want your lineage information to be
adequately and accurately documented in the database. Without
this information any publications of family genealogy may not
include your information.
You may update the
information by inputting your information or other important
information through the Registrations
section of the site. Family members who provide updated
information will be provided a personal genealogy report of
their immediate lineage.
We have received numerous
inquiries and much information on the family from places far
and wide and the database is growing quickly, make sure your
information is included if you want to have it listed whenever
an updated book is published. Also we get many inquiries from
individuals and genealogists looking to find their family or
particular linkages and if you are in the database this
information may be available as needed upon a proper request
and approval. Information may be updated
online at the link for Registrations or mailed in by post or
email.
The latest version of the Hanna-Heastie-Tynes
Genealogy is available from Bahamas
Association President Peggy Knowles at (242)
328-3601, or from Miami and Family Historian Gwen Welters
(305) 635-2398.
Also remember that personalized
genealogy lineages are available by contacting
Bahamas
Association President Peggy Knowles at (242) 328-3601, or from
Miami and Family Historian Gwen Welters (305) 635-2398.
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Reprinted from The
Bahama Journal (31st, January 2006)
A. D. Hanna Appointed Governor General
Former deputy prime minister, Arthur Dion Hanna
Sr., “one of the earliest and most persistent
advocates of the country’s independence,”
has been appointed Governor General, the Cabinet
Office announced yesterday.
Mr. Hanna will replace Acting Governor General,
Paul Adderely, who has served in the position since
December 2005, following the retirement of Dame Ivy
Dumont.
The swearing-in ceremony for Mr. Hanna is
scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Government
House.
"The personification of patriotism and integrity
in public life, Mr. Hanna occupies a position of
singular importance in the modern history of The
Bahamas," according to a statement released on
Monday.
Mr. Hanna was deputy prime minister and
government leader in the House of Assembly from
1967 – 1984, and a member of parliament from
1960 – 1992.
"Mr. Hanna is, by common acclaim, the foremost
founding father of the nation still alive today,"
according to the statement. "He was one of the
earliest and most persistent advocates of
independence and played a leading role in bringing
national sovereignty to reality in 1973."
The statement also pointed to his role in the
struggle for political empowerment and social
justice that culminated in the attainment of
Majority Rule in 1967, "a struggle in which Mr.
Hanna played a leading and courageous part."
"Mr. Hanna also enjoys a position of unique
historical importance because of his close
association with the instrument of state policy
that came to be known in the late 1960s as
Bahamianization," said the statement.
"Indeed, more than any other personality alive
or dead, it was Mr. Hanna who was the principal
architect and prime mover of this policy that
played such a critical part in ensuring the
systematic elevation of Bahamians to positions of
leadership in all spheres of the national economy
and in the public service."
Mr. Hanna, according to the statement, is also
known as one of the "pre-eminent figures in the
shaping of the modern Bahamas for the passionate
concern for the poor and underprivileged that
always informed his political and social philosophy
– a philosophy poignantly encapsulated in that
most famous of all his sayings: ‘To wipe every
tear from every eye’."
A native of Pompey Bay, Acklins, Mr. Hanna was
born March 7, 1928 to Mr. And Mrs. Joseph Albert
Hanna. He attended the Government High School and
following graduation pursued legal studies in
England, earning a LLB from the University of
Bristol. He was called to the English Bar by the
Inner Temple and in 1955 was admitted to the
Bahamas bar as counsel and attorney.
Mr. Hanna was first elected to the House of
Assembly in 1960 in a bye-election and won
re-election seven times in the general elections of
1962, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1982 and 1987.
In 1987, he was the only candidate returned to
the House of Assembly unopposed. Until he lost his
seat in the 1992 general election, Mr. Hanna had
served in parliament continuously for 32 years.
In 1967, following the attainment of Majority
Rule, Mr. Hanna was appointed deputy prime
minister, a position he held without interruption
until his resignation from the cabinet in 1984.
During his tenure as a member of the cabinet, Mr.
Hanna successively held ministerial portfolios,
most notably as Minister of Education, Minister of
Trade and Industry, Minister of Home Affairs (with
responsibility for immigration), and Minister of
Finance (with added responsibility for the public
service).
Mr. Hanna is married to the former Beryl Church,
who, in her own right is widely admired for her
"unswerving and courageous commitment to the
struggle for political and social justice,
especially in the years preceding the attainment of
Majority Rule," according to the statement.
They have four surviving children, Arthur Dion
Jr., Mark Lindsay, Glenys Hanna-Martin and Dawn
Victoria. They were pre-deceased by another son,
Sean David.
Click here to see
more pictures of the Swearing In Ceremony
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