I well remember the "case of the Levis." About half a dozen of us figured that one out in the face of many DAR and LDS submissions that had conflated a Levi from the Glastonbury line with a Levi from the Concord line. Both were Revolutionary soldiers, and they were born a year apart, so without a careful look they could be confused, and frequently had been. The other day, we saw a similar situation with Vernon Aldrich's Archibald, who had a "twin" with the same name born a year or two later. Last night I commented on a posting about a Daniel Brooks, and pointed out that there were 15 men of that name in New England in the 1810 census. Someday when we have managed to identify a majority of the hundreds of Johns and Williams, I expect many more conflations will need disentangling. There's a reminder lesson here for all of us. You can't grab the first Charles, Harry or Ezra that comes along, no matter what the surname, and assume he's "yours," without proper investigation and documentation. Sometimes/often that means eliminating rivals of the same name by researching them as well. In Vern Aldrich's case, his ancestral Archibald is not the Archibald who died in the Civil War, unmarried � but we only know this because we've identified both Archibalds. Working in an informational vacuum is dangerous to the integrity of family history. (We pause while I climb down from the soapbox �) I haven't got evidence of the Glastonbury Levi's Revolutionary service beyond his gravestone (which I personally accept as sufficient). If his service was in a CT unit, that would explain his omission from MA Soldiers and Sailors. Is there a CT counterpart to MA Soldiers and Sailors? (There is a VT Soldiers and Sailors.) The Massachusetts Levi, on the other hand, did serve in a Massachusetts unit, does have an available pension file, and is included in MA Soldiers and Sailors. This 24-volume set was produced by the Secretary of State, and if you examine it, you'll find transcriptions of every scrap of paper pertaining to Revolutionary military forces which the state government could find to include � muster rolls, furlough permissions, commissary ration draws, and so on. The Brookses live in v. 2, of this set, two to three dozen in number as I recollect. Doubtless there were other Brooks men who say served a single 10-day enlistment in a militia unit whose records are lost. The more enlistments and longer the service, the better the odds that records survive for publication. While no set of records of that era is 100% complete, if I were researching the DAR's Joseph Brooks, I'd consult Soldiers and Sailors first. If he wasn't in there, that wouldn't constitute a prohibition, but would mean that the claim must be documented in some other way. As we may hope it was, to the satisfaction of the "new" ("not your mother's"?) DAR. Thanks for writing, Don and Vernon. Don, your great aunt Ella wasn't Ella Augusta, was she? Whose ancestor "Lord John Brooks of Chisne" came over from England to live (anonymously, apparently) in rural Worcester County, MA? Carol Pullen-Reynolds had a copy of just such a family history from the NEHGS manuscript collection. If this is the same Ella, Don, I'd love to hear from you offlist. If so, be prepared for teasing. :-) Chris