Hi Cook Researchers, I just found out that my COOK ancestors probably came from Chautauqua Co., New York. I have been searching for many years for the ancestry of Florella Cook, b. 1844, in NY. Florella had a sister Roxanne and two brothers, George and Charles, that I know about. The two sisters married two KERN brothers, Edward and Levi. Edward and Florella lived in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada before moving back to the US after the Civil War and eventually settling for a time in Neosho Co., KS in the 1870s. They settled there because Florella's two brothers were already there. I just got a clue from a bio on a gentleman whom I think is Florella's brother, Charles B. Cook, who was living in Neosho Co., KS in the 1880s when the biography was written. Here is an excerpt: "C.B. Cook, farmer, . . . is a native of Chautauqua County, N.Y., born in 1826. He was of a large family of boys. His father kept them busy clearing timber farms, which he sold, and in 1842, they moved to Canada, where their timber was pine, and they went to lumbering, passing through the exciting experience incident to that life. In December, 1867, he came to Kansas with his brother George, who had preceded him, and he held a claim for him, but on account of the Osage ceded land troubles did not succeed in deeding his land until 1877." This is from William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, published in 1883. There are a few wrinkles to iron out but I think it is my family. Does anyone have information on these COOKs? Sincerely, Daniela