Responding to a comment on Brown family tree information to Ancestry.com. By the way I believe that subject lines should be changed if the subject changes. I agree! What is really secret about family tree information anyway! Living folks private information should be kept private, but if someone was lucky enough to have found something of use, why not share it! I was nearly 60 years old before I found out that my great grandfather Brown had siblings. No one in my line talked about earlier family lines. A second cousin from one of those unknown lines living in my home state found me. We shared tree information and now I am much further along on the Brown line. There have been other successes on other lines because of that meeting. My line of Browns was posted on my web site for years and was accidentally removed recently. I plan to repost when I purchase a new version of family tree software. The web site is _http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Carl-C-Brown/index.html_ (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Carl-C-Brown/index.html) Searching Brown, Wisler, Teeter, Browning, Proffitt, Norwood, Thompson, Buchwitz, Delzer, and many more families. Carl Brown

At least one thing good seems to have come out of the discussion on Ancestry.com's use of once free info.....the discussion has stirred people to post again.   I subscribe to Ancestry.com and have uploaded (and am still in the process of uploading) my tree there, along with the sources found there on each person. It at least is one place where you can make changes as things evolve. It is not set in stone and I don't take anyone else's tree, there or elsewhere as set in stone. But as someone said it is a good place to look for leads.   Also I have been one of those people who said contact me off line. NOT because I didn't want to share my info. Heavens I've sent more than I've received most of the time...on other of my lines. The times I have received more than I sent it might have been just one date or other small morsel that someone gave me which opened up unbelievable amounts of data and sometimes even long lost relatives. In the future I will try to stay on line more.   My brick wall is my husband's grandfather, William Etheridge/Ethridge Brown. We have him on the 1900 and 1910 Gordo, Pickens Co, AL census, we have the notation from Ancestry.com of his marrigae in Jan 1901 to Zelpha Ann Lowe and the name of the Primitive Baptist Church there. Then we have a PROBABLE death certificate with little info in 1919 in Harris Co, TX.    Both census records show William E was born in TN and that his parents were both born in NC. The 1900 census gives his birth as May 1859 and lists him as single and a border working as a mechanic. That would make him 41 when he married Zelpha who was 18. The 1910 census shows age 48 (makes him 3 years younger) and shows him married to Zelpha with children Henry, Allen and Bell.  AND there is a list written by Zelpha on the family, shows William's age as May 25, 1861. The probably death certificate shows W E Brown who died in 1919 in Harris Co, TX. It shows his age as abt 58 which would be consistant with the 1861 birth date. It lists his occupation as farmer and states he had had the amoebic dysentary for 2 years, a contriburaty factor was pallegra that he had had for 8 months. It also shows he was widowed.   Now let me address the questions here. 1. born 1859 or 1861. I tend toward 1859 as May was listed which agrees with Zelpha's list, so possibly he gave the info himself. Then it is possible that he shaved 3 years off his age when courting a girl more than 20 years younger than himself. 39 somehow sounds a lot younger than 42. I've read of this happening in other lines and once shaved off you can't really ever add them back. Allen's mother was actually 4 years older than she thought she was when we found her baptismal record. But either could be right or somewhere in between.   2. The death certificate shows "widowed". Zelpha didn't die till the 1960's. However, she was married to Tom Weatherall on the 1920 TX census. I have 2 other death certificates in our lines that show an incorrect marital status. All are TX certificates, but from different counties and are definately the right person and I definately have first hand knowledge that they are incorrect. The death certificate was in the posession of William's daughter Bell before she died and that is one reason why I believe it to be for the correct man. Also on his marriage license William is shown as W E Brown the same as on the death certificate, the age is correct and the fact that he was an alcoholic would lead you to believe the cause of death was reasonable. The family had split up in 1917 and Zelpha and the kids had come to Texas. Story goes William followed but they did not get back together.   This is our entire paper trail for William Etheridge/Ethridge Brown. My husband had DNA done at FamilytreeDNA.com and has a couple of of 67/67 matches and a 25/25 match. One match goes back to Thomas Brown probably born very roughly estimated about 1714 unknown place, but who shows up in Bladen Co, NC in 1761 with a son Thomas whom we have not been able to trace, a son Edmund and possibly a dau as Richard King was living with them on an early tax list. The 25/25 match goes back to Johnston Co, NC from the present to 1755 and possibly to VA before that.   Any help would be appreciated.   Carolyn Brown --- On Fri, 12/18/09, CBrown2466@aol.com <CBrown2466@aol.com> wrote: From: CBrown2466@aol.com <CBrown2466@aol.com> Subject: [BROWN] BROWN] information To: brown@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 5:16 AM Responding to a comment on Brown family tree information to  Ancestry.com.  By the way I believe that subject lines should be changed if  the subject changes.    I agree!  What is really secret about family tree  information anyway!    Living folks private information should be kept  private, but if someone was lucky enough to have found something of use, why not  share it!    I was nearly 60 years old before I found out that my great  grandfather Brown had siblings.  No one in my line talked about earlier  family lines.  A second cousin from one of those unknown lines living  in my home state found me.   We shared tree information and now I am  much further along on the Brown line.   There have been other  successes on other lines because of that meeting.   My line of Browns was posted on my web site for years and was  accidentally removed recently.   I plan to repost when I  purchase a new version of family tree software.  The web  site is   _http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Carl-C-Brown/index.html_ (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Carl-C-Brown/index.html)   Searching Brown, Wisler, Teeter, Browning, Proffitt, Norwood,  Thompson, Buchwitz, Delzer, and many more families.   Carl Brown ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message