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From: DONNA NUNNALLY <>
Subject: Re: [INDAVIES] Browns and DNA in Daviess County
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:49:51 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <001201c6e804$3f9b8db0$6501a8c0@BlackDell>


Hello, I looked in the 1860 Mortality records at the Indianapolis State library today but didn't find Benjamin in the Daviess or Martin County records. So my guess is he died after the census was taken June 1, 1860. Take care, Donna

"Geoff Brown, Between the Lakes Group" <> wrote: I'm the grandson of William Louis "Uncle Billy" Brown (1848-1942)and the
great grandson of Benjamin Freeland Brown (1814 - 1859 or 60), both of the
Washington area of Daviess County. Benjamin is said to be the son of one
Capt. John B. Brown (1769 - 1811), and the grandson of one "Honorable" John
Brown, supposedly of Virginia.

Since I was having a lot of difficulty getting this line back to Virginia
and beyond with any level of confidence -- genealogy is never easy with a
name like Brown -- I decided to try DNA testing (y-dna -- which follows the
"top line" all the way back).

Can I say that the results so far have been very interesting. First of all,
there's a Brown society with a good sized group interested in y-dna testing
of men named Brown. Here is the contact information for that group for
anyone who is male and named Brown, or is male but not named Brown but does
have close relatives who ARE named Brown, or for women who have male
relatives named Brown whom they can convince to have their DNA done:

Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study
or
http://brownsociety.org/browndna/dna-brown.htm

There is a good reason to have your DNA "done" under the auspices of a group
like this, as they get a discount on the cost, and they can also are glad to
be helpful in helping you make some sense out of the results.

So far, my y-dna -- my Daviess County Brown DNA -- is unique in this group
of more than 300 men named Brown -- in other words, nobody comes even close
to being a match. So I was thinking that if some more men with Brown for a
surname from Daviess County, or with Daviess County roots, there was a
possibility that we might turn up a connection, even if it is 16 or 20
generations back.

I am no expert on DNA testing -- far from it, in fact -- but I wanted to
tell the list about this in hopes that this approach might be helpful not
only to me but also to others on the list.

Sincerely,

Geoff Brown
www.betweenthelakes.com







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