( ) .-.,--^--. _ 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. Keep up the good work on the subject lines...were getting there :) We are getting into a good habit and one that you can use on your other lists to attract attention to your surname. Lets go back to our States Project. I have been working on the state I live in which is Oklahoma. I created a page and put it in the attic on our Cook web page. I still have more to enter but I have started it and it's now ready for you all to see. I found out a lot of things about my state I didn't know.:) I am now ready to ask for volunteers from members who live in Oklahoma to help with look ups. This is something that would not tie you down to the computer and would be so helpful to our members searching this state. Please contact me if you will help. The Oklahoma page is an example of what we can do for each of the states in the u.s. All you have to do is search the Internet for the state you live in and look for places where records are kept. Next is to offer to do look ups for anyone searching in your state. I will do all the work of putting the page together with what you send me. I will then place it on our Cook Homepage for members to see. Our Cook list is not a list of do nothing. We don't just send in a query and sit and wait for someone to come along with our family names. We share records and help each other and this project is another way to continue tie families together. Remember that when we help others we help us also. So many of us have had such a hard time finding our line and the more we work together, the closer we come to finding our Cook. So many of you are shut-ins and can't get out so this would be very good for you to help us. Each member will get full credit on the page. This is a rewarding project and I hope you won't let me down. I can't run this project by myself. :) I'm asking all of you to go look at the Oklahoma page and start thinking of what you can do to make a state page. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you... <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/CookCooke/stateoklahoma.html">OKLAHOMA</A> This is our web homepage address ... <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/CookCooke"> COOK COOKE KOCH HOMEPAGE</A> http://members.aol.com/CookCooke Need to make your day happy? I found a good site you might want to go see... <A HREF="http://www.annieshomepage.com/emailencouragers.html"> Annnie's Email Encourager Page</A> http://www.annieshomepage.com/emailencouragers.html She's a wonderful person! 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 (' `._.' `) `-..___..-'