Debbie Allen wrote, back on June 30: > Augusta Marie Brooks was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont 11 Sep > 1836 and was living in Fall River at the time of the Marriage. > She was married 29 Jun 1859 to William Hail Munroe. > Her parents names were Eli & Naomi. I researched births and > marriages and deaths of "Brooks'" for a couple of decades, with > the earliest being 1790 which is when Somerset was > incorporated. > I found nothing on Eli & Naomi, which would lead me to believe > that they either lived in Fall River, or in Vermont. Since > Augusta was 23 at the time of the marriage, her parents could > still have been in Vermont. In the census index posted at the Tributaries web site (Resources page), under VT, 1830, Caledonia County, there's an Eli Brooks at Lyndon, which is a few miles north of St. Johnsbury in what's called the Northeast Kingdom region of the state. In 1820, the only Vermont Eli ("Ely") is at Bethel, VT, at the southern end of the state. "Ela" Brooks was still at Bethel in 1840, so it appears your guy was in the St. J. area for only one census. In the Lowell, MA vital records (of all places), 4:36, is the following death record: Abel, unm., laborer, b. Swanzey, N.H., s. Eli and Naomi, typhus fever, Sept. 20, 1846, a. 20 y. 7 m. 20 d. This is the only Eli/Naomi pairing I have in my data. If you want to send me a *simple* search list like ELI & NAOMI BROOKS: 1830, Lyndon VT 1840, Bristol County, MA etc. I can take a look and send you scans as PDF files of the relevant census pages. If you do so, *please* keep it bare-bones, just the minimal facts needed for the query, as I'm swamped with backlogged stuff right now. Thanks, Chris