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Our Family's Journey Through Time
This website is about our Brown Family. We hope you enjoy looking through our 30 years of research. If you have anything to add or if you have documents or pictures you would like to share, we would love to have them. Thank you for visiting our site!
We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems
called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them
live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know
and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead,
breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of
the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our
genes.
Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we
do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood
before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the
ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us." How
many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there
for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to
who I am, and why I do the things I do.
The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before. "It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
Why
waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into
politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Everyone
has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far
enough to find a good one.
We've
uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant
past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday
nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in
the newspaper business.
Southerners
are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under
every bush.
My
grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was
sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the
hell she is.
You
can use this area to place information about family or places.
Just add them in!
We've been researching
this family name for over 30 years. I found lots of information at the
State Archives, but once the internet exploded with genealogy, many
more doors have been opened for me to research.
If you have something you would like to add or if you would like to submit documents for inclusion on this web, please let me know.
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family.