Forgive my lack of knowledge on such matters, but pertaining to the following note you sent to the list, does this mean that Henry and Thomas had the same father, or does it mean they just shared any male ancestor of their parents/fathers? "...DNA news popdown - results are back from the lab, confirming that Henry/1 and Capt. Thomas/1 Brooks, both of Massachusetts Bay, shared a common male ancestor. Finally, the author John Brooks Threlfall has recently been in touch with what he believes is the English origin of this line - in Manchester, of all places. (East Anglia, most often Suffolk, has generally been the prior supposition.)"