Welcome to the Brooksby Family Wiki

This is a repository for information about the Brooksby Family. This is an open repository. You can edit and extend it! See "How to use this site" below.

The wiki is part of the Brooksby Family web site. If you are on Facebook you might be interested in the Brooksby Family Group there.

Ron City's Family History database is now available online. This includes City and related families; the Brooksby Old Family according to Emmeline Garnett, which is more detailed than the book; Brooksby of Stoke Golding; the Bracebridge family, including Brooksby ancestry and Brooksby and Bracebridge descents. There is also a nice selection of photos. Please visit - I'm sure you'll find something of interest.

Some New Pages

Some pages we've added recently are about DnaStudies, OtherBrooksbyFamilySites and BrooksbyVillage. Read all about the BrooksbyFamilyAssociation, and the research of RonCity. To see what the worldwide family of Brooksby was up to in the early 1980s have a look at BrooksbyNews. If you are interested in research try BrooksbyResearch.

For Family Reunions see: FirstBrooksbyFamilyReunion Second1981FamilyReunion Third1982FamilyReunion Fourth1983FamilyReunion Fifth1984FamilyReunion Sixth1986FamilyReunion

Wanted Pages

You can see a list of pages that are needed at WantedPages. If you see a page that you can contribute, just click on the link to it and follow the simple instructions.

Interesting starting points

RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax
SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

How to use this site

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page
Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with ["quoted words in brackets"]
Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page
See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.
Take the WikiCourse for a quick introduction.

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