I grew up on a farm in Scotts Hill, Tennessee. My hometown was settled in 1825 by my ggg grandfather Charles Austin. I earned a degree in engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. My wife Pamela Wilson came from Panama City, Florida. We have lived in Memphis, Atlanta and have been in the Huntsville, Alabama area since 1987. My interest in genealogy took years to develop even though I heard many stories from my grandparents when I was young and never missed a family reunion. My father got interested in his Miller ancestors in the late 1980's but ran into some dead ends. After he died in 1993, I was given his papers. My parents had bought a book called The History of Scotts Hill Tennessee which a distant relative had written and contained an immense amount of genealogical data. As Ancestry.com began to make a lot of data available, I decided to plunge in. My other hobby is growing native wildflowers.

I grew up on a farm in Scotts Hill, Tennessee. My hometown was settled in 1825 by my ggg grandfather Charles Austin. I earned a degree in engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. My wife Pamela Wilson came from Panama City, Florida. We have lived in Memphis, Atlanta and have been in the Huntsville, Alabama area since 1987. My interest in genealogy took years to develop even though I heard many stories from my grandparents when I was young and never missed a family reunion. My father got interested in his Miller ancestors in the late 1980's but ran into some dead ends. After he died in 1993, I was given his papers. My parents had bought a book called The History of Scotts Hill Tennessee which a distant relative had written and contained an immense amount of genealogical data. As Ancestry.com began to make a lot of data available, I decided to plunge in. My other hobby is growing native wildflowers.