Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy

John J. Browne Ayes is an award winning visual art painter, sculptor, photographer, genealogist, writer and poet; whose paintings have been exhibited throughout Florida, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. 

In Florida: his paintings have been exhibited within Osceola Center for the Arts, Kissimmee City Hall, Orlando City Hall's Terrace Gallery, Walt Disney World at EPCOT, Magic Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios on behalf of Hispanic Heritage Month and Black Heritage Month. His art has been featured within national and locally published calendars. Showcased within local news papers as well as within national and local magazines, AARP's Segunda Juventud and Culture Magazine, The Tampa Times and Ahora Orlando. 

His paintings are within important art collections, Mi Orgullo, My Pride in the collection of former Governor Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist, and the Governor of Puerto Rico's PRFAA office in Kissimmee, FL.

The author's art has been showcased within Fox 31 News in Tampa, Florida, Access Osceola on Brite House, Channel 31 the Art's channel in Melbourne, Florida.

The author has been working upon his genealogy since the age of 14 to present and he has discovered that he is the documented 27th great grandson of don Juan Ponce de Leon. The monumental work within this book has been the result of the author's research within the Ministry of Culture, Spain's archives. The author has been researching and documenting the ancestors and descendants of the Ponce de Leon for many years as an adjunct project to his family tree. The Ponce de Leon family tree is a very large one and researching that tree in its entirety provided the discipline and the skills needed to develop and publish this book. The author is fluent in the art of paleography, the reading of old documents.