--=======42A67C7E======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-AC58BE; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 01:29 AM 12/16/01 -0600, you wrote: >I did a lookup in BROOKS AND KINDRED FAMILIES 1950 authored by Ida Brooks >Kellam, and found the following surnames in the book's index: >63 persons named John BROOKS; >31 persons named Sarah BROOKS; >10 persons named Louisa BROOKS; and > 6 persons named HUBBARD; > 0 persons named MOORE. [snip] > >Since most of the BROOKS' named in this book lived and died in North >Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, it would be helpful to know if your John, >Louisa, and Sarah BROOKS also lived in these states before I search any >further in this book. Hi Fred, It's great to see readers offering to help out, so I don't want to discourage you in any way. But I must tell you that I have a photocopy of the complete Kellam work, and have been through it with what I considered a fine-toothed comb, and have never found a single connection to one of the individuals in my database. That is, I have found the work entirely irrelevant to any of the Brooks families of New England. As a matter of fact, it was my obtaining a copy of Kellam that gave me the germ of the idea to launch a list for Brooks families of New England only. Between Kellam and the message traffic on the preexisting BROOKS-L, it was obvious that there was next to no interchange between the southern and northern families, and no relationship between the various emigrant progenitors of the two regions. Aside from which, what self-respecting Puritan would have settled in Royalist Virginia or Carolina? In other words, my experience has been that these geographic regions form two separate universes, genealogically speaking, for Brooks research. Now I have no monopoly on truth or wisdom, so if you *have* found documented New England connections in the Kellam book, by all means, set me straight! But if not, I'd hate to muddy up the genealogical waters again when all our efforts on this list have been in quite the opposite direction. :-) Finally, I note that the original query, concerning a Micajah Brooks of Polk County, GA, doesn't appear to be from our list -- in which case it's off-topic. If you're answering a query from another list, you've got the wrong forum. :-) Chris --=======42A67C7E======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-AC58BE Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 12/11/01 --=======42A67C7E=======--