On two occasions, I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question . — CHARLES BABBAGE
This site presents annotated genealogies of the emigrant progenitors who founded the first Brooks families of New England . Of the men in the table below, 13 came from old England by 1660 — the effective end of the "Great Migration" era — and the remaining two before 1700. With the exceptions noted in the Related column below, no wider or prior relationships between them are known . An alpha-numeric ID suffix (i.e., Thomas/2c, Daniel/3s) denotes the generation of descent ( where /1 is always the emi
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