( ) .-.,--^--. _ 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. :) Three years ago this list had 72 members, and today it's over 600. A year ago in January our Cook Cooke Koch homepage had 1 person who visited it, today 3,400 have visited. Today our Cook chat room opens to bring us to a higher level of doing genealogy on the Internet. It's going to be exciting to see what new things will come our way by next year. We have stood together and held tight this three years. We've not let anything tear us apart and destroy what we have worked so hard for. This I'm very grateful for. Thank you one and all for making this list what it is...I'm proud to be a Cook! 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 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 (' `._.' `) `-..___..-'