This blog is a replacement of the now defunct Jasperabrown.com. I have changed website hosts and have created a new blog, which you are now reading. This is a work in progress and will be an ongoing project that will probably be my final one as it relates to the family.

This first page, then, is an introduction to the origins of the Brown’s of Paulding County. I have searched census records for decades and while there were other Brown families in Paulding County in the early decades of the twentieth century, our family was by no means unknown.

My grandfather Jasper Aaron Brown first arrived in Paulding County sometime before his twentieth birthday. He is listed in the census of 1900 as living on a farm as a farm hand of a Mary Wheeler. According to the same census, Mary Wheeler had two sons, Robert E. Pace and Russel A. Pace. Robert Pace was 29 and Russel Pace was 18 in the 1900 census. Jasper is listed as a “boarder” in the census. This is where Jasper Brown lived subsequent to his arrival in Paulding County.

The back story, spanning centuries, takes us back to the origins of the Brown male DNA. Reference to the Brown Y (Male) DNA is not meant to discount the women. All male children of our lineage have descended male to male down the present day. Astonishingly, this means that for over 1500 years there has been a male ancestor, every generation that has produced a male offspring. This, in itself, if very unusual in genealogy.

According to the DNA profile that I have produced, my DNA haplogroup is J-L277. Every male in the Brown lineage, descended from Abraham Brown, born 1700 in Scotland and immigrant to the American Colonies in 1729 will carry the same DNA haplogroup. J-L277 branched off from its ancestor J-Z459 around 5250 BCE. The most recent common ancestor of all individuals belonging to J-L277 is estimated to have been born around 2700 BCE.

Haplogroup J in general is found in high frequencies in the Near East, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Southern Europe. Haplogroup J has a notable presence among Askenazi Jews and Sephardi Jewish populations, (around 15-20% for J2. It is also found in large segments in Arabs, Bedouins, Uygurs, and Uzbeks. Populations in the Fertile Crescent, Caucasus, and along the Mediterranean Coast. Sources indicate connections to “Jewish Family” and “Roman” groups for J-L227.

My particular DNA portforlio indicates that we have a direct ancestoral line and a common ancestor that was part of the famous Rothchild Family around 1000 years ago. We are also related, through a direct common ancestor, to the painter Van Gogh. This information was supplied to me through the genealogical site, Family Tree DNA.

Most of my DNA matches, who have been tested and are proven, have been men from Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhastan, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Armenia and Azerbijan. It is believed that early immigrants to the British Isles were from Iraq, archers who guarded Hadrian’s wall. Of course, lots more needs to be studied to determine exactly how our early family left the area of the Middle East and ended up in Britain, but it is probably though the first century stationing of Roman (who were from the Middle East) soldiers in Britain