>From Helen Austin, Decatur, AL AustinART@aol.com This is my first posting to this list. I am searching for my COOK or KOCH or KUCH ancestry in BAVARIA before 1850 and in Allegheny Co, PA after 1850 to 1880. My ggrandfather was probably born in the Kingdom of Bavaria , but perhaps in what is now called PFALZ, about 1832. I believe his name was GEORGE COOK or GEORG KUCH/KOCH, but it may have been CHARLES GEORG or KARL GEORG. He came to PITTSBURGH, PA before 1850 and married about 1860 in PA. His first wife's name is not known. He may have been a carpenter or furniture maker One of his son's was CHARLES ALEXANDER COOK b 19 Jan 1864 in Tarentum. Allegheny Co, PA. He married 27 Jun 1888 in Tarentum Methodist-Episcopal church and died 6 May 1952 in Homewood, Pittsburgh, PA. He was buried beside his wife Mary Ellen TRENARY in Prospect Cemetery, Tarentum, PA. They were the parents of Charles Lawrence COOK 1900-1969. GEORGE COOK also had a daughter Annie b 2 Aug 1870 who married Charles APPLEBY and a daughter Caroline (called Carrie) who married a Mr. Roberts. On the census of 1880, 1900 and 1910, and 1920, both Charles Alexander and Carrie stated that their father (GEORGE OR CHARLES) was born in GERMANY and once they stated that he was born in BAVARIA. I found a declaration of intention to become a citizen of a GEORGE COOK in the court of West PA (Pittsburgh) who said he was from BAVARIA and born 1832. The original application which might have had more information was destroyed in a flood. I do not know what village or town in Germany that this COOK was from. Can you tell me of a migration of workers from BAVARIA about 1846-1850 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.? Or a list of names of these emmigrants ? I do not know where else to search. I found no more records in PA to further identify this COOK.