Do we have any more information on this? Mike

Mike Shaw wrote: :Do we have any more information on this? I've expended a lot of effort trying to persuade the few ROUSSEAU descendants I've run across to join our list. I'm glad that Darrell is with us and would be delighted to see more data from, and less rumor about, these folks. :-) Having said that, it seems only fair to caution newcomers with a brick-wall Brooks ancestor: The overwhelming odds are that your MIA ancestor is NOT a Seabrook or a Rousseau or a Broek or a Bruck or a Brooksbank, but rather just a plain vanilla Brooks. If you have positive evidence to suggest one of these name-crossover origins applies to your "brick wall," then by all means pursue it, and the forum of this list is at your disposal to do so. But if you do the math, and look at these families long enough and on a very broad scale -- I have about 31,000 people in my main dataset, representing nothing but B-NE and intermarried families -- you see that the name changes represent a tiny fraction, perhaps one or two percent at most, of the people with a "Brooks" connection to New England. In the absence of any other evidence, a 100-to-1 shot doesn't seem like a great investment of time to me. :-) Chris .