Dave, I am not sure about the statement "I know more that anyone" concerning the Browning families, but I do have quite a lot of material on the Brownings. The first indication is that I cannot find any thing on your Clarissa/Clary Browning/ Needham Sears problem. I do have info on the Brownings of the area (Montgomery/Laurens/Tattnall, etc., GA), but I am sure I do not qualify as a expert on those lineages. I do have the line of George & Lavina Byrd/Bird Browning pretty well complete, and do not think Clarissa is of that line, unless it is to George R, the first son, who was born in 1802. He (Geo. R) may have had a first marriage (to Sarah McArthur?), but did marry Emeline Mariah Cheney, May 15, 1851, Montgomery Co. My data on George R is limited. I assume you have seen the census records of the area, if not I can send them to you. Have you seen "Pioneers of Wiregrass, GA" by Judge Huxford, vol. 3, p289? I do not have it, but seen it referenced. It, supposedly, gives Needham Sears as a son of Harrison Sears (b. c1797, GA) and Harriet Tully/Tullis, b. c1799 GA. The other possibility is that Clarissa is a dau. to the line of one of George Browning's brothers, James or Daniel, but I cannot place her with them. My data on them is not very complete. Both were in the same area. If you care to send me what you have on the Sears family, I will review it and possibly put it in my vol. 2 on the Browning families. If we cannot prove her parents, it can be entered as a possible connection. This vol. should go to the publisher by the end of the year. I do have a Sears connection, out of NC in the early 1800s to KY, and on to Pike/Jersey Co. area of IL, where they married into my Richey family in the mid 1800s. Not much on them prior to IL. Regards, Jim Richey