Greene County, Tennessee Compiled Genealogies

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DNA
DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Greene County residents. Attempts have not been made to verify the lineages of those tested.


 * [Brown] Multiple descendants of Benjamin Brown, b. 1807 Greene County, Tennessee, d. 1881 Fulton County, Indiana. Y-DNA 25 Marker Tests, FTDNA (Kits 22271, 35699). Genetic signature available online (labeled Group No. 27), genealogical description available online, courtesy: Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study.
 * [Brown] Multiple descendants of Jotham Brown, b. 1783 prob. Botetourt County, Virginia, d. 1859 Greene County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 37 Marker Tests, FTDNA (Kits 20597, 40665, 40836, 41839, 41841, 72264, 155288). Genetic signature available online (labeled Group No. 34), genealogical description available online, courtesy: Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study.
 * [Brown] Descendant of Peter Brown, b. abt 1793 Ayrshire, Scotland, d. 1837 Greene County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 12 Marker Test, FTDNA (Kit 43434). Genetic signature available online (labeled Group No. 20), genealogical description available online, courtesy: Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study. Matches have been found.
 * [Brown] Descendant of Brown family of Greene County, Tennessee. Y-DNA 67 Marker Test, FTDNA (Kit 30190). Genetic signature available online (labeled Group No. 44), genealogical description available online, courtesy: Brown/Browne/Braun DNA Study. Matches have been found.
 * [Rader] Descendant of Casper Rader (1732-1812) family of Greene County, Tennessee. About 2/3 of the Rader's are in this group.  y-DNA of 40 Rader's tested are on Jim Rader's web site at http://www.rader.org/dna/y.htm  There are Representatives’ of many Rader lines also listed there.

General
Gordon Aronhime (1911-1983) collected information on hundreds of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee pioneers. His note cards, which reference more than 4,000 early settlers of the Holston-Clinch River area and East Tennessee (1770s-1790s), are held at the Library of Virginia. The cards have been digitized and made available online.

As of August 2010, a query for persons born in Greene (County), Tennessee at World Connect, results in more than 150,000 entries!

For early settlers (pre-1796), start with:


 * East Tennessee Historical Society. First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-day Descendants. Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 2000. . [Identifies families that had settled in Tennessee before it achieved statehood in 1796.]

Books that discuss multiple local families include:


 * Greene County History Book Committee. Historic Greene County, Tennessee and Its People 1783-1992. Waynesville, N.C.: Don Mills, 1992. and Index:.
 * Hensley, Benny E. Beneath the Oaks at the Foot of Meadow Creek Mountain, Oak Hill, Parrottsville, TN..
 * McAmis, Edward Crawford. Tennessee's First Settlers &amp; Soldiers. St. Leonard, Md.: E.C. McAmis, 2000..