Well, I'm making progress, at last. From 277 messages in my Brooks Genbox (Genealogy Inbox), I'm down by a whopping twelve messages to 265. Now that's what I call progress. It's not enough just to read the messages -- no, no -- there is information to be gleaned from each and every one. One message contains a link to a site from which I spend four hours transcribing notes. Another announces that a member has posted an abstract of Brookses from Oglethorpe County, GA...but wait, look at all of his other files that look intriguing as well! This could take days. Months. Perhaps years, conservatively speaking.
I find that I'm nearly six months behind the others in the group -- a group of which I am, embarrassingly, the moderator -- and as I plow through the sheer volume of information, I worry that I will ask (or answer) questions that have already been addressed in the intervening 265 messages. I hope everyone will bear with me as I play catchup.
Hi - yes there was a very prominent Matthew Brooks in Rowan, then Surry, then Stokes County (same locations just became different counties). He was what we would call today, a Colonial tax collector.) He was so wll liked - they named a road and even specified a town - Brook Ferry Road and Brookstown - which is NOT the present day location near Old Salem, NC. However - there is so much neat info on the name Brooks - Boone and others to this area and it is like a finely woven tapestry.
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