Judith, I am also researching my Cook roots, but I don't believe we are connected since my Cook's have been traced back to 1736 in NJ, USA. I haven't proof of anything farther back but have suspisions that need some work. As for your delima. I have found a great deal of help by joining the lists'on roots for the state and county that my ancesters have lived in. So I have belonged to the NJ list, the NJ sussex list and the NJ Morris list. In Pa where my Cooks jumped the Deleware in 1888 or so, over to Pike County and Monroe County Pa. I found PaPike and PaMonroe. helpful. You can also go to the sign up page for those lists and scroll down to the bottom and click on the archives and review all the stuff for the past several years by months or type in a name and it will bring up the posts for you to review. Ann On 12/31/06, JudithUpton@aol.com <JudithUpton@aol.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm new to this list. I've recently discovered that a large group of my > Cook family relatives emigrated to Pennsylvania during the 1850's and > 1860's > from Gloucestershire, England. They were coal miners and set up homes > in the > Northumberland and Schuylkill counties of Pennsylvania, although they > also seem > to have spent a brief time in Ohio. > > Is anyone out there a descendant or relative of Samuel and Jennet Cook, or > Joseph and Hannah Elizabeth Cook of Schuylkill, or Sampson and Mary Cook > of > Shamokin? > > Can anyone out there point me in the right direction to start finding > records of their marriages? I can find scraps of a Pennsylvania > Marriage Index on > the web but it comes up fairly blank for Cook? Any help would > be appreciated. > > regards > Judith Upton > Portishead, Bristol, England > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Ann Brown " Cookie"