I'm excited! The Brooks mentioned on page 21 are from my line, and this is the first documentation I have seen on the marriage of Daniel Brooks and Olive Smith. How can I follow up on this? Nineteen eighty-one was a long time ago. Christopher Brooks wrote: >Brooks Family Query Exchange, 2:1, May 1981, Queries: > >Page 16: > >BROOKS, WHEELER, WRIGHT >POTTER I am a desc of two BROOKS lines. I do not know if the earlier line are ancestors of my "Thomas BROOKS of Watertown and Concord" line or not. My descent is Thomas1, Joshua2, Noah3, Benjamin4, Persis5 b 1720 m Jonas WHEELER. I have only one difference to the line in Vol. I, Issue 2. I have Noah3 m Dorothy WRIGHT instead of Dorothy POTTER. > (Ed. - Can any readers help to verify which is correct?) >BROOKS, FOOTE My other line is: (1) Robert b ca 1487, bur 28 Jun 1551 in London. He m Katherine ____ b ca 1501; (2) John b 1530 Royston, Cambridgeshire, ENG, d 1588, WP 28 Jul 1599 in London; (3) Joane b 11 May 1555 Eastcheap, London, ENG, d after Feb 1608 in Shalford, ENG. She m. 18 Jun 1576 Robert FOOTE of Shalford. Does anyone have any info on this line? > Mrs. Robert G. Whaley, 655 S. Auburn St., Grass Valley, CA 95945 > >Page 21: > >HOTCHKISS, HACKETT >Daniel BROOKS, Jr. b 1765 CT d 1839 Lincoln, MA, m Olive SMITH b 1763/4, bur Tyner, NY. Ch: Harmon b 1802 d 1874 bur Lower Tyner, NY; William b 1806 NH?; Abigail b 1804 d 18 Nov 1875 m Alexander CUMMINGS; Nancy b 1794 d?, m Sherman HOTCHKISS b 1789; Horace b 1803 d?, m Sally HACKETT b 1808 or 1829; Sally b 1797 d?, m Charles RACE; Harvey b 1796, d 1850. I believe all ch b in NY. >HOLDRIDGE, HARRISON, HAWKINS >Ch of Nancy (BROOKS) and Sherman HOTCHKISS: Charles b 1818 NY; George b 1825 NY d?, m Mary E. HOLDRIDGE b 1827 NY; Julia b 1826 NY m James (or John) DRISKILL (DRISCALL), she d 1890 MI; William b 1827 d?, m Jenet __?__; Spencer b 1828, d?, m Mary HARRISON; Mary b 1830. > Ch of Abigail (BROOKS) and Alexander CUMMINGS which are known to me: Jane b 1842; Olive b 1845. > Daniel BROOKS, Sr. b ca 1740/5, m Abigail HAWKINS. > Marjorie H. Rheney, RFD #1, Box 91A3, Harlem, GA 30814 > >======================= > >That concludes both Issue 2:1 and all the material of New England interest. > >Chris > > > >==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== >When posting, please use a relevant, not recycled, subject line. This is a key to successful searching of the message archive. > > >

Penny Brisson wrote: > I'm excited! The Brooks mentioned on page 21 are from my > line, and this is the first documentation I have seen on > the marriage of Daniel Brooks and Olive Smith. How can I > follow up on this? Nineteen eighty-one was a long time > ago. I located John Brooks Threlfall two months ago at the same address he used in 1973. Granted, the odds are against you after 25 years, but I'd first write the last known address. If the person who sent the query is deceased, perhaps you can run down an obit through a county list at RootsWeb (death date from SSDI) and then try the phone book for living relatives mentioned in the obit. I found a second cousin in almost this exact way who hadn't been heard from since the 1940s. If you can find a living relative, they may well know who the "family historian" is and be able to put you in touch. Glad to hear there was something useful in those transcriptions. Only a small number of the publication's issues have been transcribed. I also looked up Daniel and Olive in my database and find Ramona Curtis as a source along with yourself. Chris