Good morning, Passing this along from a message board via BROOKS-L. Identity: Woburn line (Jersey branch) 7. Zebulon Brooks + Amanda BULL 6. Daniel + [Sarah HARRIS?] (Bible says Daniel and "Patty," a nickname for Martha) 5. Zebulon Jr. + Mary DAVIS 4. Zebulon + Esther ?WILLS? 3. Rev. Timothy Jr. + Hannah BOWEN 2. Capt. Timothy + Mary RUSSELL 1. Henry of Woburn + unnamed 1st wife Chris ================================ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [BROOKS] BROOKS family Bible of Tioga County, NY This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CMG.2ACIB/3697 Message Board Post: I no longer own this Bible, but wanted to share the contents with others. You can see some scanned images of it here: http://www.geocities.com/jganis2/BrooksBible.html Note: text in brackets [ ] below was added by transcriber. Here's some specifics about the Bible itself. From the title page: The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised. Stereotyped for the American Bible Society by D. & G. Bruce. Printed by D. Fanshaw, No. 20 Stoat-lane, New York, 1819. Has American Bible Society embossed on the front leather cover. Measures about 4-1/4" x 7-1/4". About 2" thick. 837 pages. Written inside front cover: Susan Brooks — Aug 26, 1913 Page before title page: Amanda Bull's Bible - Presented by the ?/sex[Essex?] Bible Society by Isaac Finch Amanda Brooks Page 640: Zebalon and Amandy Brooks married February the 8? 1824 [or 1827/29?] [Zebulon Brooks md. Amanda Bull] [Zebulon Brooks b.c.1806-d.July 4, 1872; Amanda Bull b.c.1807-d.May 28, 1879. Buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Spencer, Tioga Co, NY] Edna Brooks was born Mar 28, 1822 [?] George Brooks was born Aug 23, 1829 Almira Brooks born Aug 29, 1830 [Almira M. Brooks married Oct 1, 1851 at Danby, Tompkins Co, NY, to Harrison W. Georgia] [died Feb 18, 1898, State Line Mills, PA. Buried at Portville, NY] Daniel Brooks born December 21 183_ [another page says 1837] [Daniel C. Brooks (b. Dec 21, 1836/7-d.Jan 21, 1921) md. abt 1864 to Mary M. Seely (b.Jul 5, 1844 Newfield, NY-d.Apr 11, 1913)] Amanda Brooks born Jan 18, 1839 — died March 4, 1850 aged 11 years one month fourteen days Edmond Brooks died Aug 2, 1858 aged 30 years 8 mos 4 days [b.c.1828] A few other pages have handwriting. ADDITIONAL DATA ABOUT THIS FAMILY: Further research reveals that Zebulon Brooks was listed on the 1830 Census of Tompkins County, in Danby, NY, but was listed in Spencer, Tioga Co. in 1840-1860. The 1860 states that he was born in New Jersey. He is supposedly the son of DANIEL BROOKS (1751-1816) and wife PATTY. DANIEL was in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. Ebenezer Slasson's company, Col. Samuel Drake's New York Regiment. He was born in New Jersey and died in Spencer, N. Y. Zebulon's daughter ALMIRA M. BROOKS married Oct 1, 1851 at Danby, Tompkins Co, NY, HARRISON W. GEORGIA. She died Feb 18, 1898 at State Line Mills, PA. Buried at Portville, NY. Zebulon's son Daniel C. Brooks (b. Dec 21, 1836/7-d.Jan 21, 1921) md. abt 1864 Mary M. Seely (b.Jul 5, 1844 Newfield, NY-d.Apr 11, 1913). 1830 Census, Tompkins Co, (Danby), NY, Zebulon Brooks, p.431 1840 Census Tioga Co, (Spencer), NY, Zebalon Brooks, p.109 1850 Census Tioga Co, (Spencer), NY, Zebulon Brooks, p.104 1860 Census Tioga Co, (Spencer), NY, Zebalon Brooks, p.673

Greetings from Jean McKee's sister, Elizabeth Brooks McKee Lewis! Delighted to learn about you and your parents, who must visit our Brooks Homestead in Cheshire. Jean and I spent summers there growing up and now she is there often. My husband and I return usually July/August. Our 2 daughters, Linda Brooks Lewis McCoy and Elizabeth Brooks Lewis Panke, and our 8 grandchildren including Whitney Brooks McCoy, Elizabeth Brooks Panke, Rachel Brooks Lewis (our son's daughter) usually drive east to visit. An important tradition is an afternoon at Hillside Cemetary, where Thomas et al are buried. Doing our best to imbue them with a sense of our family's place in history! Looking forward to hearing from you.

On Sun, 5 May 2002 15:09:59 EDT, [email protected] wrote: :I am a little confused after my gap of trips (dashed to Cheshire :en route to alumni meetings in NY). I think I have a sort of jet :lag. If we want to contact the latest Cheshire Brooks, Thom :Brooks, do we do it through this address, or through his e-mail, :or write. I plan to be in in London on Aug.4-5 and could :probably extend it if he was within range and give him some :papers, plus he might be some help on finding the elusive :parent(s). Jean, if you reply to the list, everyone can read it, including Thom, who is subscribed. (As a matter of fact, since you sent this to the list, he has already received a copy). But if 7 cousins each reply to Thom privately, then no one else will be the wiser other than the individual sender and the addressee. It shuts the rest of us out. The address to reply to the list is [email protected] My suggestion was that preliminary replies to Thom's query be addressed to the list so that we can see how many of you there are. But it's up to you. Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ========================================== BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) ========================================== [email protected]

I am a little confused after my gap of trips (dashed to Cheshire en route to alumni meetings in NY). I think I have a sort of jet lag. If we want to contact the latest Cheshire Brooks, Thom Brooks, do we do it through this address, or through his e-mail, or write. I plan to be in in London on Aug.4-5 and could probably extend it if he was within range and give him some papers, plus he might be some help on finding the elusive parent(s). Jean

Thom Brooks wrote: :I've just discovered this listserve. I am a direct descendent of :Thomas Brooks (born 27 March 1669, died 20 July 1732) and Martha :Hotchkiss (b 14 Dec 1683 d 1755) of New Haven, CT. My part of the :family remained in CT, with some in PA and now in FL. I have since :"returned" to England to stay permanently. :I know that my line were Puritans who left England when Cromwell :died. I would appreciate any extra information people might have to :share. :Please respond off list. Welcome, Thom. As the list admin I invoked privilege to change your subject line from a thread I'm hoping to kill to the actual subject of your query. :-) My request to you, and to other descendants of Thomas Brooks and Martha Hotchkiss, would be that you NOT respond off list, at least initially. One of the things we're in business to do is to link cousins with one another. My hope is that your visible connection with cousins will encourage other folks with a "brick wall" obstacle to keep digging. I hope anyone interested in this line will post responses to the list as a whole. Yours is what we call the Wallingford/Cheshire line, Thom, and you will find half a dozen cousins here. I'd encourage each of you to at least share an introduction in this forum. THEN you can take the nuts-and-bolts stuff offlist if you like. :-) Others can and will help you here, but a quick response is that there's one more generation short in this country: Thomas/2 Brooks + Martha Hotchkiss Henry/1 (1639? - 1713) Brooks + Hannah Potter (?? - 7 Nov 1723), wid. of Samuel Blakeslee You'll find a lot of information about this particular line in the list archive, the address for which was in your welcome message. Note that yours is NOT the only Henry Brooks that we talk about as a founder; Henry Brooks of Woburn, MA (c. 1592 - 1683) was also an emigrant progenitor. So you'll want to distinguish between the two if you visit the archive. Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ========================================== BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) ========================================== [email protected] :I've just discovered this listserve. I am a direct descendent of :Thomas Brooks (born 27 March 1669, died 20 July 1732) and Martha :Hotchkiss (b 14 Dec 1683 d 1755) of New Haven, CT. My part of the :family remained in CT, with some in PA and now in FL. I have since :"returned" to England to stay permanently. : :I know that my line were Puritans who left England when Cromwell :died. I would appreciate any extra information people might have :to share. : :Please respond off list. best wishes, : : : :Thom : : : :------------------------ : : : :Thom Brooks : : : :Department of Philosophy : : : :University of Sheffield : : : :Sheffield S10 2TN : : : :England : : : : : :Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here ==== :BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To unsub, send ONLY the word :UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or BROOKS-NE- :[email protected] :__________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - :"Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

Please keep me on the list. Cindy

Chris, I did receive a notice from Tributaries. Was suspicious of it at first because of all the evil doers using e-mail to mess us up, but I could tell that it was something valid, so did not delete it as I do many things, using Web mail to check before actually downloading my mail. Anyway, I still am not sure I understand what this Tributaries is. Don't know for sure how I got subscribed to it, or even if I actually am subscribed. Can you enlighten me? Edia On 2 May 2002 at 11:34, Christopher Brooks wrote: Date forwarded: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:07:52 -0600 From: Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> Date sent: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:34:10 -0400 Subject: [BNE] Tributaries update To: [email protected] Forwarded by: [email protected] Send reply to: [email protected] > Good Morning, > > Yesterday I sent out an email update, receipt requested, to each of > 104 of you who are Tributaries subscribers. The message contained a > status report and was also sent to confirm the validity of the email > address prior to sending out actual "pickup notices." > > To date I've received only 5 receipts. I suspect that many recipients > declined to acknowledge for fear that this was some sort of malware. > That was not the case, and if you don't respond, you won't receive the > notification when the issue is available. > > If you are a subscriber, and did NOT receive such a message, please > contact me privately at [email protected] > > I apologize for using this forum to discuss a private communication. > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > or [email protected] >

Yes, I want to stay on the tributaries mailing list. Bev

Norma, if you are listening, or if anyone else might have Norma's email address, please contact me privately. Thanks, Chris

Please, folks, do NOT send any more messages about this subject to the list. I've already done this myself in hurried reply to a message. This subject is OFF-TOPIC. Messages about this subject don't belong here. If you have questions about Tributaries you should send them to me OFF-LIST. This is, and will remain, the BROOKS-NE mailing list at RootsWeb. It's not going away. No one's BNE subscription is being cancelled. Nothing has changed. Don't worry, be happy. :-) Thanks, Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ========================================== BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) ========================================== [email protected]

Please keep me...Thanks. Dorothy

On Sat, 4 May 2002 14:51:43 -0400, [email protected] wrote: :I did receive a notice from Tributaries. Was suspicious of it at :first because of all the evil doers using e-mail to mess us up, :but I could tell that it was something valid, so did not delete it :as I do many things, using Web mail to check before actually :downloading my mail. Anyway, I still am not sure I understand :what this Tributaries is. Don't know for sure how I got :subscribed to it, or even if I actually am subscribed. Can you :enlighten me? You're comped (complimentary subscription) for the McDaniel material you forwarded me. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Edia. :-) *I* am Tributaries. I research it, write it, and distribute it. The notice came from me. PLEASE (!!) read http://www.tributaries.org/ Chris

Please keep me on the list! Thanks! donna -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Brooks [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BNE] Tributaries update Good Morning, Yesterday I sent out an email update, receipt requested, to each of 104 of you who are Tributaries subscribers. The message contained a status report and was also sent to confirm the validity of the email address prior to sending out actual "pickup notices." To date I've received only 5 receipts. I suspect that many recipients declined to acknowledge for fear that this was some sort of malware. That was not the case, and if you don't respond, you won't receive the notification when the issue is available. If you are a subscriber, and did NOT receive such a message, please contact me privately at [email protected] I apologize for using this forum to discuss a private communication. Thanks, Chris ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or [email protected]

On Thu, 02 May 2002 18:30:29 -0400, janice breedlove wrote: :Hi Cousin! : :Sorry I didn't respond to the receipt request. Didn't realize I :was supposed to. Please keep me on your list. Wouldn't dream of removing you. :-) But some of the email addresses I have for subscribers are four years old, and I needed to confirm them. I thought a receipt request was the least annoying way to do so. Chris

I am responding! Anne

Yes Chris, I want left on the Tributaries list also. Thanks Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: [BNE] Tributaries update > Good Morning, > > Yesterday I sent out an email update, receipt requested, to each of > 104 of you who are Tributaries subscribers. The message contained a > status report and was also sent to confirm the validity of the email > address prior to sending out actual "pickup notices." > > To date I've received only 5 receipts. I suspect that many recipients > declined to acknowledge for fear that this was some sort of malware. > That was not the case, and if you don't respond, you won't receive > the notification when the issue is available. > > If you are a subscriber, and did NOT receive such a message, please > contact me privately at [email protected] > > I apologize for using this forum to discuss a private communication. > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== > To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > or [email protected] >

Hi Cousin! Sorry I didn't respond to the receipt request. Didn't realize I was supposed to. Please keep me on your list. Janice "B" ----Original Message Follows---- From: Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [BNE] Tributaries update Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:34:10 -0400 Good Morning, Yesterday I sent out an email update, receipt requested, to each of 104 of you who are Tributaries subscribers. The message contained a status report and was also sent to confirm the validity of the email address prior to sending out actual "pickup notices." To date I've received only 5 receipts. I suspect that many recipients declined to acknowledge for fear that this was some sort of malware. That was not the case, and if you don't respond, you won't receive the notification when the issue is available. If you are a subscriber, and did NOT receive such a message, please contact me privately at [email protected] I apologize for using this forum to discuss a private communication. Thanks, Chris ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] or [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

Good Morning, Yesterday I sent out an email update, receipt requested, to each of 104 of you who are Tributaries subscribers. The message contained a status report and was also sent to confirm the validity of the email address prior to sending out actual "pickup notices." To date I've received only 5 receipts. I suspect that many recipients declined to acknowledge for fear that this was some sort of malware. That was not the case, and if you don't respond, you won't receive the notification when the issue is available. If you are a subscriber, and did NOT receive such a message, please contact me privately at [email protected] I apologize for using this forum to discuss a private communication. Thanks, Chris

Good morning, As much as I dislike giving these matters space ... the KLEZ worm is now rampant. I've posted protection tips in the past against malware (viruses, trojans, worms). Basic preventative techniques include (1) keeping your antivirus software up to date (meaning daily recognition file updates at times like this), (2) virus-checking all incoming mail BEFORE opening it, (3) setting up your email software to turn OFF preview features (which can activate malicious code embedded in HTML messages), and (4) disabling VBS (Visual Basic Scripting), a Micro$oft "feature" that no one asked for which provides a gaping security hole for malware authors to exploit. ANYTHING which arrives with an attachment should be closely scrutinized before opening -- particularly if the attached file has an extension of .exe (indicating an executable program) or .scr (indicating a screensaver, but a frequent malware disguise for an executable). Since KLEZ and the newer generation of malware are quite smart and able to forge headers with ease, the fact that the incoming appears to come from me, Bill Gates, your Aunt Gladys, or from anyone else you may happen to trust, is irrelevant. If you have the slightest doubt, create a mailbox in your email software named Embargo, and store the suspect messages there (where you won't accidentally or absent-mindedly open them) while you email the identified sender to confirm that they've sent you an attachment. I habitually urge users of Micro$oft email programs -- Outlook and Outlook Express -- to switch to *any other* email software. The Outlook siblings not only have real security problems, but MS users are invariably the hacker's target -- understandably so, because of Micro$oft's commanding market share. The people who write this stuff are looking for the biggest destructive bang for their buck, and the galaxy of MS users is where they generally find it. Email alternatives to Outlook/Outlook Express: Eudora Light (adware version, free) http://www.eudora.com/ Pegasus Mail (free) http://www.pmail.com/downloads.htm PocoMail ($30 shareware [30-day free trial], full-featured, offers spam filtering, is not VBS-literate and therefore can't execute VBS scripts) http://www.pocomail.com/ Virus information sites to bookmark or consult about KLEZ: Symantec Security Response Center http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ Trend Micro Virus Information Center http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/ THE site to bookmark regarding computer hoaxes (the "tell all your friends" mode of malware): CIAC Hoaxbusters site http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ I'll paste below a message I sent to another list this morning with additional tips, techniques and resources. This begins with quotations from an actual KLEZ cover message. Note the fractured English and lack of proper inter-word spacing in the following quotes: ============================== :Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very :dangerous by corrupting your files. :You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come :into your PC. :NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real :worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. Since the majority of malware authors seem to inhabit non-English speaking countries (which, after all, form the majority of the world's population), mangled English in an incoming message is usually an immediate and visible indicator that something's amiss. Unless, of course, our English-speaking correspondents habitually mangle the language on their own. :-) With reference to the 0000 address entry technique, it does no harm and is not altogether useless. It will combat some older malware like "Snow White" (which Symantec calls the W95.hybris worm) which relies upon the address book to generate a victim list. I still get Snow White every couple of weeks, even though it's a couple of years old now. (I laugh and wonder who is so "out of it" that they're allowing their machine to send out two-year-old worms.) New malware doesn't replace old malware -- they coexist together. The suggestion to employ a server-level email scrubber like MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net/) is right on the money. You can also get yourself an email program which has a "check the server" feature built in (like PocoMail), or run down one of the freeware standalone utilities written to do this. I kill anything that looks suspicious on my ISP's server before it can ever reach my machine. ============================== Finally, remember that you CANNOT get a malware infection through this list, or any other RootsWeb list. The RootsWeb servers automatically kill any messages with either an attachment or HTML. The danger comes from other users -- who have your email address in their address book, or, in the case of KLEZ, in their cache -- and from websites with contaminated HTML which your browser will cheerfully download to your machine as you view the site. Please understand that these precautions are needed every day, whether there's a panic on or not. This is our future, sadly, if we want to be able to continue to safely use the internet for genealogical collaboration. Your computer, no matter how new, expensive or bells-and-whistles-laden, cannot provide common sense or good judgement. That's up to each of us as individuals. Thanks, Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ========================================== BROOKS-NE (Brooks Families of New England) ========================================== [email protected]