The Brown Roots

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Genealogy of the
Browns and Pittwoods

On this website our two families are presented as far back as we have researched to date.
We also include all the desendents with their children that we have discovered. We know that most are accurate and researched with documentation but but there can be corrections.

The Brown Family

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The Brown family originated in Scotland, Ireland and England as their main heritige. Landing in America they settled in Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas. The Browns then moved south into Georgia then spreading to Alabama. After the Civil War Joseph's line moved to Arkansas because of an elopement, (an unusual one) then to Oregon in the 1920's.

Prior to the Second World War migrated to California, partly because of war work. So quite a journey, followed by many more people, from the East to the West.

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The Pittwood Family

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John Pittwood lived in Devonshire, England. His son William arrive in New York with his wife, 8 children & 16 pieoces of baggage in 1836. After a short stay there moved to Illinois where he lived and died. His decendants moved on to the State of Washington and became well established there. His son then eventuality moved to California., where it seems so many move to.

Again, East moves to the West.

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 Genealogy Quotes

  • Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
    ~ Mark Twain
  • There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children - one is roots, and the other, wings.
    ~Hodding S. Carter
  • Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one.
    ~ Howard K. Nixon
  • We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
    ~Jimmy Carter
  • Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush.
    ~Florence King
  • My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
    ~ Ellen
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