Brooks Family History and Genealogy Blog

The subject is Francis Harvard Brooks, grandfather of Royal Harvard Brooks. His death certificate shown here is largely inaccurate in that his father provided the information and he was unaware of his past history. Our purpose here is to find a birth record. Since he was born in Europe specific location is needed. We hope that can be found on an immigration record. However, INS needs to have verification of his death Hopefully, the INS record will have a specific location for his birth place. In many of his records he always used Tyrol, Austria or Italy as the place, but since this is a large region in Austria and Northern Italy, more information is needed in an attempt to obtain a birth record. There is a small village in Northern Italy called Tyrol, which may hold some significance.
As noted in an earlier Blog, Geoff and Kylene Brooks will travel to the region during the Christmas and search some of the archives in the region to try and get information regarding the parents of Francis Brooks. The phpGed site has more research notes on the subject.
RHB