Interesting that this happened today. As y�all know I�m at the lake house cleaning it up to make it my house again after mom and dad passed. Today we cleaned out Mom�s office. My sister, the local family historian was sorting stuff. She gave me a bag of paper to burn so I spent time at the fire pit today. Anyhow tonite before dinner she brought forth her findings. Remember, this is Mom�s office.

Mom was an Arkansas Brazil, or so we thought. Turn out that grampa Brazil was a Texan from Taylor. That was the first surprise.

The second surprise...

The Brazil�s immagrated from Ireland. They were then known as Braswell. They were seafarers, good Navy men, like me. Brea is a hill or slope, well is a spring. Anyhow, Mom�s papers say that a man, Eremon, supposedly a legendary figure, in 335 B.C. sailed from Spain to Ireland to plant the Brazil clan. The Brazil�s flourished, and in about the year 500, a member of the clan called Brendan went on a seven year voyage and visited the new world. In the year 800 the Brazil clan left Ireland bound for the new world. Her docs said they came to America, didn�t say which one, and gathered dye products and returned to Ireland to market dyes. Ancient records confirmed the Brazil clan named many dyes. It is noted that later the clan Brazil sailed to South America to explore for more dye products. They discovered more of the same products and returned to market them in Ireland. The South America they got there dye products from was given the name �Braezeale, the ancient spelling of Braswell. That name eventually evolved into the modern name Brazil.

I�m not lying or drunk, yet. This is from Mom�s personal papers. I had never seen them before. BUT, mom didn�t cotton to BS.

I promise not to raise y�alls taxes.

I don�t get it.

He�s a Brazilian dye maker, duh?

He was importing dyes from America 1000 years before Columbus.

Anybody with the last name of Lee in your family history

So I guess that's where we got Brazil nuts

Mom was a Brazil.

Weirdest deal. My great, great grandad walked on the moon a couple hundred years before Neil (or Lance) Armstrong.

We found the evidence on an old iPad that he had in the cellar.

What happened to Brendan on the 7 year voyage

All humans are descendants of the same man and woman who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Our communal mom and dad got together after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race.

John Wesley Hardin dropped the Scagnetti part of his name when he got off the boat from Italy

Wasn�t this part of the plot to legends of the fall.

My Viking ancestors were invading what is now Ireland in 800. The Irish were a bunch on spice traders with bad breath.

My great great great great grandfather was the one in Oklahoma to put tires on top of his tepee .

My ancestors of the Fukari tribe were roaming the new world without any stinking maps way before that .