Data updated 4/6/2007 . Recent updates include:

  • Found! Robert McKoy and his wife Anne Wilson. She immigrated from Wales to Nova Scotia where she met her husband. They migrated together to Vermont.
  • I have spent a lot of time working on place names for the US and Canada to display their names as they would have been known at the time of the events. This included all the colonial and territorial designations and numerous changes in county names and borders (and even changing states). I have used some wonderful software called Animap from www.goldbug.com. I found lots of people who lived in the same town all their lives, but lived in many different jurisdictions. I will eventually make a page that details many of those changes, but the locations should be self-evident.
  • I have visited and photographed the Strong Family Cemetery in Lansingville, NY. Start with Benajah Strong to see the images.

Data updated 12/25/2006 . Recent updates include:

  • Chris Brooks, the author of the www.tributaries.us website and adminisrator of the Brooks of New England listserv has obtained the book compiled by John Brooks Threllfall that definitively traces the Brooks family back into England. This work finally clarifies the relationship between Henry Brooks of Woburn and Thomas Brooks of Concord (they were first cousins) and identifies Thomas' wife, who has been given many incorrect names. Mystery Grace finally has a surname, Cunliffe (alternatively spelled Cuncliff, Cunleve, etc.).
  • Lots of work on sources, and sentence structures to clean up the narritives.

Data updated 2/28/2006 . Recent updates include:

  • I have added lots of census data from 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. There are still a lot of folk I haven't found, but I made a lot of progress. I will work on adding other census years over the next few months.
  • I have come into posession of a couple of large boxes of original material from Simeon M. Fox and Florence Fox Harrop (yes, I'm doing the genealogy happy dance)! There is oodles of information to add. I have started with Simeon's corrections to "Thomas Fox of Concord" which turns out to be Simeon's work edited by William Fox (and not well according to Simeon).

Updates from January 2006

  • Ancestry.com published images of World War I draft registration cards in late 2005. I have found records for many men in this database and recorded them.
  • I bought a wonderful 9 CD set of the vital records of Massachusetts through 1850 and have been searching for as many people as I can find. I have found hundreds of records and in the process corrected many dates and places, linked families togehter, and even merged a couple of people who I had thought were different but turned out to be single individuals. There are many more people who I did not find so I have begun searching for their records in other places.

Updates from September 2005

  • I have corrected an error in the ancestry of Sarah Flint Drury - I had the wrong Daniel Howe married to Esther Clayes (Sarah's great grand-parents).
  • I have shared some information with other researchers looking at the Brooks and Cook(e) families in CT. in the 1600's. It seems like Lydia Brooks was indeed the only wife of the second Nathaniel Cook and the mother of all his children. This seals my fourth Brooks ancestral line (a rare event based on the information submitted by the other subscribers of the Brooks genealogy listserv). I still have no proof of the identity of Mary Brooks who married Nathaniel Cook the third - but it seems more likely to have been the daughter of Lydia's brother.

Updates from June 2005

  • I have added the lines of a couple of newly found cousins - Al Lyons who is a 4th cousin once removed. connected through Jonathan and Lydia (Hammett) Snow, and Karen Fox, a 7th cousin linked through Isaac Fox, son of Thomas the immigrant.
  • Speaking of Thomas, Kevin Fox and Ken Wheate have convinced me on their identification of Thomas' parents. Kevin has debunked the myth that either Thomas of Concord (ours) or Thomas of Cambridge was a descendant of John Fox who wrote the Book of Martyrs. Kevin and Ken have also disproved the theory that Thomas called Moses Wheate "brother" because Thomas was married to Moses' sister. It was actually the other way around - the wife of Moses Wheate was Tamzen Fox, Thomas' sister! So, two mysteries solved, leaving the identity of Rebecca, Thomas' first wife still to be discovered.
  • I have finally come to the conclusion that the wife of John McDougall was not Jennie Hanson but actually Jennie (Jane) Palmer. The only source for her name being Hanson is the book written by General Hawkins. I think he got confused - he knew that Jennie was the sister of the wife of one of the other McDougall brothers, but picked the wrong one. I have found a marriage record for Jane Palmer and John McDougall, and have found their children living with Jane Palmer's parents and brothers in later census records. I have found no evidence for Jennie Hanson anywhere. It's too bad the 1860/1870 census records did not include relationship!