The first 4 generations of the line of William/1 Brooks of Springfield and Deerfield, MA are now available at the Tributaries web site. This is a "first cut," so I'll probably be uploading additional sources, detail and corrections for a few days. The "New/Revised Narrative" function has been renamed to Change Log. A first installment of half a dozen photographs and illustrations are up as well, belonging to Caleb/2 of the Medford line, his wife Hannah Atkinson, Richard Norcross, and the two eldest sons (William and John) of William/1 of Springfield. The Springfield line biographies, for the most part, are brief to skeletal, and represent only a fraction of the information that will included in the next issue (1:2) of the subscription publication Tributaries. For example, the raw notes I've compiled on William/1 of Springfield run to 20+ pages in my database, and many more pages in external files and documents, while only a screenfull of this data is now online for William. I compiled this new data as a research aid as part of the publication project, and it's still very preliminary, but I couldn't see holding it back any longer when the information could be of use to others. The first phase of these online genealogies -- generations 1 through 4 of fifteen early Brooks lines in New England -- is now about 80% complete. The site now includes 1,430 individuals, so it's doubled in size overnight. Still missing online are most of the 4th generation of the Scituate lines, and the complete 3d and 4th generations of the Concord and Woburn lines of Capt. Thomas/1 Brooks and Henry/1 Brooks. Though I'll be making further revision uploads for a couple of weeks or so, I don't expect to add any of the missing generations prior to release of the publication. As for the publication, I'm working on it nonstop. The current goal is delivery by Christmas, which will mark the 10th (!) anniversary of the preceding issue. I actually hope to make this deadline. If those of you who have subscribed have further questions or complaints about the long wait, please direct them to me OFFLIST. This is a subscription (fee) publication, and we don't want to muddy the water on this free mailing list and/or confuse new readers. For more information, please see the Publications link at the web site. For a few minutes of colorful reading, I recommend clicking on William/1 Brooks and on Henry/1 Burt (William's father-in-law), and then clicking on each of their immediate children. (Descendant charts for both men provide an easy way to do this.) If you thought that all early Brookses were deacons and Boy Scouts, and died peacefully in bed of old age, the Springfield line will quickly disabuse you of that misbegotten notion. :-) Chris |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Brooks BROOKS Families of New England http://www.tributaries.org ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||