--part1_ce.b8e8c58.2710bfc2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fellow bewildered Brown researchers: I've been collaberating with a lady who has been doing genealogy research for 30 yrs. We believe we descend from the same Brown line. Recently, I forwarded a reply I got to her, and the foregoing is her response: << I'm wondering about that database from Arthur Kibby Taylor whether he has any documentation on the data. I suspect there are a myriad of errors. I'll bet Samuel Brown was born in Essex Co.( VA) and someone thought that was NJ. The Austin Co., VA is undoubtedly Augusta Co., VA. Later on he has John Grattan Brown, Jr. b. in Ohio and I'll bet he means Ohio Co., KY. Anyway, I'm wondering how he made his connections for the first generations, because I believe John & Frances Garton Brown had their son John in 1779 and he probably would have been born in Augusta Co. also and it is very possible that he was given the middle name Garton.. I know he married an Elizabeth ? and moved to KY, but I believe it was Todd Co., KY. There seems to be some potential here for mix up. I have written our Garton News editor to see if he has something in his database to clear this up. If he has an Elizabeth Garton who married a Samuel Brown that would help. He may also have a list of children for John & Elizabeth (?) Brown and just where they settled. Hope he will answer. >> --part1_ce.b8e8c58.2710bfc2_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <gailgilbert@earthlink.net> Received: from rly-za01.mx.aol.com (rly-za01.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.97]) by air-za03.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.8) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 10:12:41 -0400 Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by rly-za01.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 10:12:28 -0400 Received: from earthlink.net (dialup-63.210.116.95.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [63.210.116.95]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00907 for <VAThomson@aol.com>; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 07:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39DF2EF1.448CDD4A@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 07:10:57 -0700 From: William Gilbert <gailgilbert@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: VAThomson@aol.com Subject: More thoughts on this... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Virginia, I'm wondering about that database from Arthur Kibby Taylor whether he has any documentation on the data. I suspect there are a myriad of errors. I'll bet Samuel Brown was born in Essex Co.( VA) and someone thought that was NJ. The Austin Co., VA is undoubtedly Augusta Co., VA. Later on he has John Grattan Brown, Jr. b. in Ohio and I'll bet he means Ohio Co., KY. Anyway, I'm wondering how he made his connections for the first generations, because I believe John & Frances Garton Brown had their son John in 1779 and he probably would have been born in Augusta Co. also and it is very possible that he was given the middle name Garton.. I know he married an Elizabeth ? and moved to KY, but I believe it was Todd Co., KY. There seems to be some potential her for mix up. I have written our Garton News editor to see if he has something in his database to clear this up. If he has an Elizabeth Garton who married a Samuel Brown that would help. He may also have a list of children for John & Elizabeth (?) Brown and just where they settled. Hope he will answer. He doesn't always reply. He's one of those who like to receive and doesn't give out much. I should have started the newsletter myself back in the 1970's. Then I would have the accumulation of data he has. Oh well. Hindsight! Do you think I should write this Arthur Kibby Taylor myself and suggest the Grattan/Garton possibility? Should I subscribe to the Brown List? By the way, I've always said that Gore like Clinton says whatever is expedient. If Gore would "lie" about the examples he gave, you can be sure he lied with his "fuzzy math." I was given a book early on in my statistics course in college which the professor used to make a point, - it was called "How to Lie with Statistics." By the way, my husband's brother-in-law sent an immediate reply to our letter, saying he would provide a waiver to acknowledge that the genealogy papers were given to us. He didn't say anything about having Fran sign off on the agreement on the book though. I think the who issue was a "smoke screen", that is a diversion to get Pete concerning about the genealogy, so he would be ready to sign off on the Trust. And he won on that. We will probably go ahead and settle on the estate, just to get on with our lives. We will still have to get Fran to sign on the book later in order to publish it, but I think we can, if we threaten to tell all the cousins how she has created such an obstacle for us. More later, Gail --part1_ce.b8e8c58.2710bfc2_boundary--