The Brooks historian

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Vols. 1-5 title pages provide statement of responsibility, "a quarterly publication of the Brooks Historical Library." It is presumed, by indications within text, that the Brooks Historical Library was still responsible for publication for vols. 6-8.

Editor: Madeline S. Mills; William "Bill" R. Brooks; Dixie L. Judge.

Publication probably ceased with Vol. 8 no. 3/4 (Sept/Dec 1998).

Published: Tulsa, Oklahoma; Julian, California; Oceanside, California; Gardnerville, Nevada.

Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Brooks (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, Russia, and Scotland. Some allied families came from Czechoslovakia and elsewhere. Some were adopted into the Brooks family, and some were African American slaves who took on the Brooks surname. In the 1600s, some ancestors immigrated to Antigua, Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, and St. Christopher (West Indies), and to Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In the 1700s, some settled in Quebec (Canada), and in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Tennessee. During the 1800s, some moved to Nova Scotia and Ontario (Canada), Australia, the Azores, Mexico, South Africa, and to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in British Columbia (Canada), New Zealand, and in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, South Dakota, Washington, and elsewhere.

Includes queries.

Includes Brock, Brockhagn, Brockham, Brockhorn, Brockman, Broks, Broock, Broocke, Brook, Brookbanke, Brookbanks, Brooke, Brooker, Brookes, Brookesby, Brookesley, Brookfield, Brookhart, Brookhouse, Brooking, Brooking, Brookman, Brookmier(s), Brookmire, Brookbank, Brooksh, Brookshaw, Brookshead, Brookshier, Brookson, Brookwood, Broox, Broque, Brouck, Brueck, and other variant spellings, which may or many not be related.

Also includes Andrews, Asbury, Ashcraft, Brazil, Cary, Dewey, Hollingsworth, Houlton, Ioor, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lithicum, MacGregor, Middlebrooks, Pekar, Purdy, Quick, Rainwater, Rambow, Ramos, Richardson, Smith, Strickland, Sweiger, Taliofiero, Thomas, and many other related families.

Annual name indexes begin with vol. 6 no. 4. Most volumes include a name index in the fourth issue.

Includes lists of the Brooks Historical Library holdings, extracts from those works, and indexes to those works are created by Brooks Historical Library membership. Some indexes are of all Brook and their variant surnames (incomplete indexing) and others index all surnames in the works.

Quarterly

Quarterly, with only 2 issues published in 1995 (vol. 5 nos. 1-2).

Some issues and pages were misnumbered. Vol. 2 no. 2/3 (Apr/July 1992), and vol. 8 no. 3/4 (Sep/Dec 1998) are double issues.

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