( ) .-.,--^--. _ Good Morning Cook Cousins \\| `---' |// Come on in the coffee pot's on \| / _\___/_ Good Morning Family, A big welcome to our new members. Before long you will know everyone and feel comfortable. We are a unique group of people. We cry together and we laugh together, as we are truly one big happy family. The best part about us is the way we help each other. If you are new to the Internet, or new to genealogy, please do ask questions. Someone in this group has an answer to help you. We are all eager to see who your Cook's were so when you are ready, do post them. Please put your names and STATE in the subject line. You want everyone to know what's inside. :) Something about spring and watching the flowers and trees come alive that makes us come alive. Guess we are like the bears...:) It's time for us to start looking forward to meeting new cousins. I bet half of us are related and don't know it! Lets watch our queries and make sure we are getting the important information other members need to know to make a connection with us. We get excited and sometimes leave out little things while we're typing. Members can't guess at what we meant to say but don't. "Just some food for thought" I hope everyone feels free to post queries and information here on our Cook list. The last thing I want is for anyone to be timid and afraid to post. We are here to find family and this is what the list was set up for. If you need help in any way, please e-mail me and I will try to help you. If I don't have the answers I bet I can find someone who does. :) Don't give up trying to find your family. We all get discouraged after a while of getting nowhere it seems, but along will come a clue and were on our way again. :) Our chat room is this afternoon at 2:00 Central Time. Anyone in the whole wide world who is searching for the surname Cook can come talk with us. I know this is the opportunity of a life time we needed to find more of our family. This is why I signed us up. I do hope to hear from you saying you want to host a state for our new state project. This is a very worth while project to help us find our lost family. I can't think of anything more important! I've really had a good time looking for information for the Oklahoma page. We have the world at our finger tips thru the Internet and it's so easy to find things. Do check out the pages for the states already up. I know these members would love to hear from you saying you will help volunteer to do look ups. We can only make this project work by pulling together. :) If you haven't been to our Cook Cooke Koch web page, do take a look. Check out the Attic for new records. This is our web homepage address ... <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/CookCooke">Cook Homepage</A> http://members.aol.com/CookCooke <A HREF="http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl">Archives </A> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Stay sweet and kind just like you are and not change, and I promise not to change also. BG I really enjoyed having coffee with you this morning, it was so nice! ( ) _.-~(~-. (@\`---'/. Ellie (' `._.' `) `-..___..-'