Those of you with Brooks and Pendells in your family might want to check the following web page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brooks/NYBROOKS.htm I was told the article on the Pendell family was donated from a private collection just last year so it may be "new ground". I'm not researching the Pendell's. I'm descended of the Levi Brooks that married Lydia Buck. I just keep turning over stones looking for Levi and all this other "good stuff" pops out! :-) Carol Reynolds