Genealogy Website of Richard Brown and Cris Phelps Lacework knot design

Welcome to the
updated Genealogy Site of
Richard Brown and Cris Phelps

On this page, top to bottom:

Introduction

Links to: our personal ancestries;

descendancy lines of several ancestors;

family members with military service (knight);

photo galleries (cameras);

a tongue-in-cheek look at royals in the brown tree (crown; updated 11/8/17)

"brick wall" issues (question mark);

a list of interesting sites (gem buttons);

credits (painter); and

personal comments (not yet linked).

Please sign our guestbook

If you find any errors, no matter how trifling, please email Richard at [email protected].

The basis of this site is the ancestry of Richard Brown and Cris (n�e Iris) Phelps, originally from Indiana and Michigan, respectively. Our ancestors were mostly ordinary people with no claim to fame, which presents challenges to finding them in the web of history. Like you and all others who have caught the genealogy madness, we persevere, and hope this site will be useful and enjoyable to visit.

a disclaimer: this is a work in progress. as these files have grown and new trees have been added it has become impossible to keep up with every change. if you find misspellings, broken links, duplicate individuals, or just plain dumb mistakes, please let us know. happy hunting.

Our personal Ancestral files:

Brown-related family pages:

Ancestries of richard's uncles and aunts by marriage:

Phelps-related family pages:

From medieval to modern times members of our families have served king and country.
Click on the knight to visit the Warriors page.

Genealogy is about individuals with faces. Click a camera to view an album.

PHELPS BROWN

Dive deeply enough into any family history and you will invariably find royalty. Not modern, though. We're talking so far back that some of the countries involved don't exist any more. Still, it's fun to ask "what if?" isn't it? So I offer a gallery of nobility from my Brown family tree. Some are in my ancestral line, most are not.

Click on the crown to see a selection of my VIP kin. Others will be rotated through periodically.