For those who enjoy thousands of hits, with endless browsing and no end or horizon in sight, try entering Brooks at this link: http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp It's an index of library and institutional collection catalogs.It doesn't offer any instant gratification in the form of scanned documents or things like that, but it will tell you where all sorts of Brooks papers and ephemera are kept. Free access through May 31, after which time they presumably charge a subscription fee. A couple of samples related to Jonas Hapgood Brooks (my ancestral cousin) and Gen. Micah Brooks (Jean McKee's) 6. Jonas Hapgood Brooks, 1848-1937 papers, 1872-1901. Jonas Hapgood Brooks, 1848-1937. Contact information: Albany Institute of History and Art Correspondence about mineral speculation, the Whitney scandal, parole efforts on behalf of Thomas Ballard, and Republican politics, 1872-1901; among his correspondents are Thurlow Weed Barnes and ... ... Ballard Thomas Brooks Jonas Hapgood Albany New York ... ... Hapgood Brooks 1848-1937 Jonas Hapgood Brooks ... ... scandal parole efforts on behalf of Thomas Ballard ... ... 19821201 Jonas Hapgood Brooks 1848-1937 papers ... 7. War of 1812 collection, 1806-1818. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site (Newburgh, N.Y.) Contact information: Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site Logbook of the private armed hermaphrodite brig SARATOGA, Thomas Aderton, captain, 1813-1814; journal of Major Gen. Micah Brooks kept while serving on the Canadian frontier, July to October 1812; ... ... instructions muster rolls Aderton Thomas Brooks Micah ... ... hermaphrodite brig SARATOGA Thomas Aderton captain 1813-1814; journal of Major Gen Micah Brooks kept while ... : As an experiment, I tried a more focused search for unusual names that I know are already on the web in a museum page context. Ammi Brooks was a chairmaker whose work is profiled on a Maine museum's website. Hervey Brooks of Goshen CT just came up last week as a potter who's been beatified by Old Sturbridge Village. But while they're both on the web, entering their names in quotation marks in ArchiveGrid came up empty. Chris