Hi American Browns, My Browns came to the USA in 1828 from Alsace, France.  They traveled through Penn. to Ohio.  From there some went to Wisconsin and one went to Kingman Kansas.  I was lucky to find where they came from in Alsace from the port in France.  From there I have been able to rent films from LDS for Seltz, Alsace and have been able to track them through the late 1600's.  I even was able to get an inventory of my Paulus Braun from 1822 which was 17 pages long! I am still researching them and continue to find more and more. Thanks, Ken and Alice for the posting. Mary   --- On Sun, 4/19/09, Ken & Alice Brown <jumbobrown@optusnet.com.au> wrote: From: Ken & Alice Brown <jumbobrown@optusnet.com.au> Subject: [BROWN] AMERICAN BROWN'S FROM SCOTLAND To: brown@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 5:46 AM Hi American Browns I joined this Brown forum many years ago now and have read entries with interest over the years on how Brown's have faired in America. It is a bit disappointing though, for me at any rate, who is not an American Brown, on how few  postings there are on where the American Brown families originated. In other words the U.K. which in most cases I would imagine would cover where the majority of American Browns came from. Do you American Brown's use a different forum than this one for those enquiries? Is there a lack of recorded information for the general run of American Brown's on where their first ancestor who landed on American shores came from?  The country in the U.K., the Shire, the town, village or farm? In my own case, I live in Australia,  my father was a Scot and on the paper trail for my Brown's in Ayrshire, Scotland I am back to 1510, courtesy of great Scottish record keeping. As far as DNA is concerned I have very close Y-DNA matches with two American Brown's but they have no idea of where their ancestors came from as they only go back to the 1800's on the paper trail. I have an extensive database of my Brown's from the parishes of Sorn and Galston in East Ayrshire Scotland that may be of interest for American Brown's who hailed from this area of Scotland. But I would enjoy  seeing some postings from American Brown's searching their deeper roots in the U.K.. Surely there are some Scottish Brown's over there? Come on let's hear from you! Cheers Ken Brown OZ ------------------------------- 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