This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HNG.2ACEB/1653.1 Message Board Post: We have discussed Simpson Browning before. I have to ask, though, what evidence you have that shows Simpson Browning of Alabama is the Simpson Browning of Thomas Co., GA? The thing is, the Simpson Browning of Greene County, GA was listed as a son of John Browning and Nancy Peebles Browning. We have finally figured out that E. F. Browning's book confused two different John Browning families. One family went to Thomas County, GA, including a Radford Browning (and your Simpson is part of this family), and the other eventually landed in Arkansas. John and Nancy Peebles Browning are the ones that landed in Arkansas NOT John Radford Browning. We know that Simpson Browning was in Thomas County as your research confirms. Since there seems to be more than one Simpson Browning there needs to be evidence that your Simpson, in Alabama, is the one from Thomas County. Could he be the son of John and Nancy Peebles Browning? I don't think it likely as we find on other records on hi! m except Bible records published by the DAR and some of their material is based on E. F. Browning's book. In 1860 there was a Simpson Browning in Orange Co., NC living next door to Richard Browning who was 75 at the time. John Browning who went to Clark Co., AR was from Caswell Co., NC. Caswell was part of Orange County until 1777 so this Simpson may be somehow related. What a tangled web they wove!! As to Averetts, have you asked on the Averett board?