Hi Carol, I am dilatory in responding. Perhaps you've heard from someone offlist in response to your query. While the focus of this list is a specific set of Brooks families originating in New England, you're more than welcome here. Ron Hughes and other listreaders are also researching post-Great Migration emigrants from England, and there's ample evidence of cross-border migration between New England and Canada. I will make one comment in terms of list protocol. If anyone has information on George, I'd like them to share it with the list as a group. (Reply All rather than an individual reply to the sender.) If a lengthy thread should develop, and it had no relationship to our target population, then it's possible I might ask the participants to take it offline. But I'd rather err on the side of latitude than miss something which might connect to one of "ours." Thanks, Chris Christopher Brooks, List Administrator: ============================================ BROOKS-NE-L (Brooks Families of New England) at RootsWeb.com ============================================ Carol Rooksby Weidlich wrote: > I've searching for any information on my 3rd great > grandfather, George M. BROOKS who I believe was dropped > from a space ship into New York State. > > Funnies aside, what I have been able to learn about > George is that he was born 24 Dec 1796 in Yorkshire, > England. My first census find is the 1851 Canadian > Census - Fredericksburgh Township - District One where he > is shown as a Farmer, living with his wife, Nancy (McKee) > and children: Richard, Harriet, Hannah and George. <snip> > > If anyone has any information on George please contact me. <snip>