This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown Powell Redding Sparks Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.wilkes/1953.2109.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Sarah, I don't know if your reply ever got to me. I just noticed it and may have responded to you but have no record. In any event, my information goes back to James and Rebecca but I have little substantial information on them. It is good, however, to hear from another cousin. I know that following the time that Mason and Clary Brown moved to Indiana many Brown family members followed them to Wells County, Indiana and nearby areas. In fact, there is a substantial contingent of Brown family descendents in that area. I am going to visit some distant cousins in Indiana next month. Two or three years ago I went to the national archives in Washington to look up Powell ancestors and found that members of the Brown family in NC had previously looked at the records in the 1930's while doing genealogy research. Included was correspondence from a congressman supporting their request for information! Since the Browns also collected information on the Powells I am wondering if you know of any source for the Brown Family genealogy work from the '30's? Are such things archived somewhere? Since they had congressional help I assume it was a substantial piece of research. I would certainly like to know more about the Brown family. I know the members of the Brown family in Indiana helped my great grandmother a great deal and my father (who has been dead for nearly 40 years) kept contact with the Browns in NC while a young man. It seems amazing to me that the families in Iniana and NC kept track of each other and visited and communicated for at least a century after my ancesters came to Indiana. Anyway, I hope you receive this and if you can update me on information about the Browns including whether they came from Northern Ireland and about previous genealogy studies I would be enormously grateful. Bill Powell