Priscilla Royal just sent along this web page link: ><http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:jr0ot_k_nmg:www.rootsweb.com/~nyoswego/biographies/brooks.html+%22jabez+brooks%22&hl=en>Click >here: Brooks Family of Redfield & Orwell NY There's an extended narrative by Wayne Hollister, one of our subscribers. Both well researched and written, the narrative covers this line from Middletown, CT, in the 18th century through later migration to Oswego County, NY. I've never heard a peep out of Wayne about this before. He's too modest by far ... :-) Other readers who have similarly documented a BROOKS line over time in a particular locale might consider doing the same -- that is, contributing a narrative to the US GenWeb site for that particular county. I'm working on something similar for my 4 generations of Brooks forebears at Princeton, MA. Because the US GenWeb effort is national, I suspect these sites will remain "standing" as beacons to lost travelers long after the proprietary message boards have disappeared. Chris