This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5540/3cDBAIB/8050.1 Message Board Post: Please look at http://hometown.aol.com/kathy36110/Brooks.html. I copied an except of that information below. You may have known this altready, but I couldn't tell that from your open-ended request for "any information". Did you mean "any information about his ancestry"? Sorry, I didn't find any. You might try the birth records for York. Susie Mae COOPER was born 1902, and died 1977 in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery Alabama. She was the daughter of 10. Levi Benjamin COOPER and 11. Sallie E CARTER. Children of Susie Mae COOPER and James Edgar BROOKS are:2. i. James Edgar BROOKS was born 1925, and died JAN 1992 in Prattville Cemetery. He married Mary Ella THORNTON 6 MAR 1943 in Montgomery AL, daughter of Milton Elijah THORNTON and Bessie Mae HOOD. She was born 1927 in Montgomery, Alabama, and died 1987 in Millbrook, Alabama. ii. Elizabeth Ballard BROOKS. SISSY married Clarence C BEARDEN. He was born 1920, iii. Dorothy Mae BROOKS. She married Harold Leon ROBINSON. He was born 1925. <---------------- iv. Gloria Joyce BROOKS. She married Wm Burgin MERIWETHER. v. Margaret Christine BROOKS was born 1929, and died 1998 . She married Harold Cecil BRIDGES You may already have the information from these sites also: http://www.genealogy.com/users/h/e/r/Brooks-Heritage/FILE/0002text.txt http://www.genealogy.com/users/g/e/n/Coonfield-Genealogy/FILE/0010text.txt