Jane Devlin has just added another terrific page to her Middlesex County, CT website -- a history of Haddam Neck, contributed in 10 parts by our own David V. Hoffman. (Don't stop to acknowledge the applause, David ... just keep typing. :-)) If your Brooks ancestry includes the Haddam line, you will want to vist (and bookmark, and undoubtedly revisit) Jane Devlin's site. The list of resources (Barbour records, for instance) she's transcribed there will make your jaw drop, and it continues to grow. Jane's transcribed resources cover not only Middlesex County, but also southeastern MA as well -- Scituate, Taunton, and Swansea records have been added recently, for example -- so Scituate line descendants of brothers William and Gilbert Brooks will find this useful as well. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Jane also administers the excellent CTMIDDLE-L at RootsWeb, focusing on Middlesex County, CT genealogy. ===================================== A smaller but new CT resource will be available shortly, in the form of a GEDCOM of the LESTER family of New London. BROOKS-LESTER intermarriage means that a substantial number of the Lesters at New London were descendants of Henry Brooks of Woburn. David Hoffman was kind enough to send me the Barbour Collection listings for Lester at New London, and I have them almost transcribed and connected into a family tree -- I should finish by this evening. I generally don't use GEDCOMs -- the 5.5 standard is implemented differently by every software program on the planet, so data is invariably lost or truncated in exchange. In this case, however, we have only BMD (birth, marriage, death) records for these folks, so there's nothing extra to lose. I'm going to package all the Lesters into a self-extracting GEDCOM file packed in GenViewer, a wonderful little utility which I use constantly. In non-technical language, this means that when you receive it, all you've gotta do is to double-click the file, and voila! you'll be looking at not only the names, places, and dates, but also the transcribed Barbour listings verbatim -- all in a terrific viewer with 10 different tab views. As the White Flower Farm catalogs like to say, "Hard to know what more you could want." Almost worth it just to see GenViewer, which will knock your socks off! There won't be a big demand for this file, but those collecting Woburn line descendants and those with a New London LESTER in their data will want it. I'll send you a copy when it's ready if you'll email me OFFLIST with an ALL-CAPS subject line of SEND LESTER. Similarly, I'll have a FOX GEDCOM in a week or two, representing the Fox family at New London, and I think Glastonbury as well. This is another surname with an early Brooks intermarriage, again to the Woburn line of Henry Brooks, and tons of descendants, with a few crossovers to the Concord line of Capt. Thomas Brooks. If interested, same drill with a subject line of SEND FOX. Thanks, Chris