10 Generations

I have spent the last week entering in up to 10 generations on the family tree of the website. I really hope, with a long persistent effort, that I can obtain up to 10 complete generations in my family tree. This is very difficult, if not virtually impossible to do. Being the descendant of poor or average loggers, farmers, and early settlers, the records were not always kept. It's sad to read of fires and other disasters that have occurred over time and taken the vast knowledge of records with them. Many a courthouse has burned to the ground in the past. Many of the tiny, rural churches are gone too. It's a search of unknowing family members that may have that hidden piece of information you are looking for.

I have had the pleasure this week of speaking with Nicki Osborne, Jim Fullilove, and Bill Mitchell from Attala County. They have provided me with more information surrounding the Allen side of my family. I want to thank them for taking their time to email me, and provide me access to other sources. They have been very kind and forthcoming with information. Thanks guys!

Anyway, the Family Tree portion of the website is almost up-to-date with as much information as I have. The remaining entries for Nannie Wasson's Ananfetel Report will be coming this weekend.  After this, the main structure of the site will be present, and I'll begin adding more media. Scans of documents, pictures, and other items I find. Stay tuned.

Nannie Wasson Entries

I've spent most of the afternoon today beginning the entry of Nannie I. Wasson, the wife of George Henry Brunt, into the website. Check it out - https://sites.google.com/site/bruntgenealogy/nannie-i-wasson. It definitely is a labor of love, because nothing else could explain to me why I'm going through such pains to get everything just right. And this is only the beginning.

I guess a part of me hopes that this website (and update blog) finds people, the right people, that may have some secret clues that will uncover some family treasure that has been buried for a hundred years or so. Heck, there is so much information lost just to the last 50 years. One should not live his or her life in regret, but I wish I had listened more to the stories my grandfather and grandmother told. I wish I had asked more questions. Oh well, now I have to find the information the hard way.....so be it!

Website Online

It's not complete by any stretch of the imagination, but I've published the beginning of the Brunt Family History Webpage. Please stop by and take a look, and share if you have any information that is not present. In the days coming, I'll be adding more and more data to the site and hopefully more pictures. I'll also be adding in the other side of my family, the Wasson side. I'll do my best to keep them separate and linked in at the same time. Hopefully both family branches will benefit from our labors.

To Get Things Started

I'm starting this blog in hopes of uncovering more information about my Brunt family line of ancestors as well as posting newly found items and updates to my Brunt Family website (coming soon). My grandfather is George Henry Brunt (1923 - 1992) from Attala County, Mississippi who married Nannie Irene Wasson (1924 - 2007) also from Attala County. If anyone has relatives within this family, please comment to start a discussion or email me at michael.t.brunt@gmail.com. I love to share, and love to receive new information too.

I have some incomplete family lines mostly on the maternal sides of the branches since the maiden names were sometimes lost in public documents. I'm specifically looking for harder to find items now, such as biographies, stories, wills, other family documents, and it would be AWSOME to uncover pictures that have been lost to time or forgotten.

I want to go ahead and thank EVERYONE that has helped me get this far! A special thanks goes out to Kevin Brunt of Kosciusko, MS, that has selflessly compared his notes to mine and regularly provides genealogical information to anyone he can help.