Hi, As a New Year's goal - I am going to get past my Cook brick wall. My first step is find some folks related to my elusive great grandfather Jefferson Davis Cook. I am beginning with looking at the Ballard County, KY Cook families. Pam Cary Durstock e-mail: durp@one.net can provide copies of death certificates for $3 each (1911 - 1946) - copies from microfilm. These are the first batch of death certs that I am going to order. Do any of these names look familiar to anyone? <<...>> I already have Jefferson Davis Cook's death cert and will copy to anyone who would like a copy. I am going to work my way thru the maze of Cook family members in each of the Jackson Purchase Area counties. Jefferson Davis Cook was born in Calloway County, KY in 1860 to Newton Cook according to his death cert - mother unknown. He is buried in a grave without a stone at the Bethleham Cemetery in Wickliffe. (The church records burned.) He married Mary Emma Roach Cook in Ballard County. Had 5 children - 2 died as children - don't know who they were! I can't find him in the census ... If I can't tie him down - by the time I get through all the counties in Northwest KY - I'll have the other Cook families figured out! This information is from the KY Vital Records web site: http://ukcc.uky.edu My cook page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4375/cook.html Pat Scheele, North Omaha Planning and Scheduling Office Omaha Public Power District, 7475 Pershing Drive, Omaha, Nebraska 68112 (402) 636-2689 e-mail: pscheele@oppd.com Thoughts to ponder: "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us, pales in significance to what lies within us."