In a message dated 3/12/2005 5:52:12 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Guess I'll move on to another surname and forget the Cooper line. Lois That is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I am also researching COOPERs, however, our family is from Kent, England>Canada, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand. In spite of the fact that it is such a common name, we have successfully connected with many cousins and at this time have about 6,000 descendants of the original couple who married in 1769 in Kent. Being afraid to put info out there to help connect with others would not have helped to make all the connections that we have with living cousins. We do protect ourselves and our families by never posting people born beyond 1900, but we all post families to different areas of the net and that is what has helped to make our tree as complete as we have it at this point. Unfortunately, so far we have not found anyone carrying the COOPER name in the U.S. other than Canadians who further immigrated to the states. The only ones we know of for sure who immigrated directly to the U.S. are the family of my ggrandmother who was a COOPER and who brought her family to the U.S. following her oldest son who had deserted the English Navy and therefore could not stay on English soil. Most of our COOPERs do not seem to have immigrated until the mid 1800s. If anyone has any COOPERs from Kent, England immigrating 1850 or after, I would be interested to hear from then. Of the 6 kids of the second generation all are accounted for except 1 female: Descendants of John Knowles Ives 1 John Knowles IVES 1761 - . +Sarah COOPER aka: Sarah Cooper Ives 1778 - Unknown m: June 27, 1799 Saint Olave's Church, Southwark, Surrey, England d: Unknown and the wife and children of one of the men: Descendants of Jeffrey Cooper 1 Jeffrey COOPER 1775 - 1848 Burial: December 29, 1848 St. Mary's (Church of England) churchyard, Fawkham, Kent County, England . +Sarah RUSSELLS aka: Sarah Russells Cooper 1775 - m: January 25, 1808 Wilmington, Kent, England ( M012531) 2 Samuel COOPER 1808 - 2 Jeffries COOPER 1810 - 2 Richard COOPER 1812 - 1823 Burial: June 11, 1823 Holy Trinity (Church of England) churchyard, Dartford, Kent, England 2 John COOPER 1814 - 1814 Burial: April 28, 1814 St Botolph (Church of England) churchyard, Northfleet, Kent, England 2 James Jeffrey COOPER 1815 - 2 Christopher COOPER 1821 - 1821 Burial: September 13, 1821 Holy Trinity (Church of England) churchyard, Dartford, Kent, England 2 Thomas COOPER 1825 - 1825 Burial: August 04, 1825 Holy Trinity churchyard, Dartford, Kent, England 2 Henry COOPER 1829 - If anyone can connect to these families, we would be very glad to hear from you. Annie in Minnesota

Excuse me. I thought I was able to make a simple statement without being hit with witty remarks. I guess I really do need to move on. I will submit my unsubscribe now. Enough is enough is enough. Lois