To the Cooper group. I want to apologize to the entire group for getting aggravated last night. Yes, and I apologize to you too Lois. In explanation, I should have been a little more diplomatic. But you see, I know how much hard work Ben Cooper put into that website and I for one have referred to it many times. It just got to me a little bit that words like worthless and useless were being directed at the website that Ben worked so hard on and that others had inputs to also. Anyway, I do apologize for my outburst which was short. I shut my computer down so I would not be enticed to add insult to injury. Thanks for listening. Ron Thompson, a Cooper descendant. My grandmother was a Cooper from the Louisiana Cooper group out of Vernon parish La. -----Original Message----- From: Lois Franceschi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [COOPER] dna and research and questions 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 ==== COOPER Mailing List ==== We have archives! Search for your COOPER information here..... http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=COOPER ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx
Ben, To get us going in a more appropriate direction... how about a sort of Roll Call, telling who we have found through the DNA testing. We don't have to use names of the living relatives. I will start. My family has searched for years for our John Cooper, b. abt 1803. The earliest information found on him was record of his marriage to Elizabeth Coggin, Aug 21, 1828. One of our best researchers was going to give up in frustration. I asked him if he would consider doing the DNA testing. He did, and right away we had a perfect match, and remains a perfect match even after doing the 25 marker test. Now, there are 4 perfect matches on the chart, all from lines that we had no way of which we could prove any connection. There are a total of six that match our line in some way. Biology was the only class I almost failed in college. DNA is a foreign language to me, but our research now is being worked in two directions, and we have a lot more help with all of the newly found cousins trying to piece together the puzzle of this family. With the DNA matching, we are now fairly certain that our John was the brother of Ammon Cooper. Both were born in NC and moved into TN and KY. Ammon moved his family north into Iowa, John's children moved into AR. The only one of John's descendants (grandson Joseph,) that moved north, moved to Iowa after the Civil War. I am fairly certain he went up to where his cousins were, and the connection might not have been lost if Joseph had children. He did not. The other DNA matches have connected us to Zacheus, Samuel and Isle Cooper and possibly back even further to an Alexander Cooper of Yorkshire, England in 1628. But right now, I have at least 6 new found cousins - friends, who are all working to help us piece this puzzle together. And just like with any puzzle, looking at it from a different angle might help us find the missing pieces. We are so much farther along now, than we were 3 years ago with no proof that any of these men from NC connected to our Coopers. Thank you Ben, and thank you to all of the Cooper males willing to participate in this new, positive approach to research. The saying "Blood is thicker than water" has new meaning! Kay Cooper Descendant of John Cooper & Elizabeth Coggin > Elisha McDaniel Cooper & Rachel Norman > Henry Preston Cooper & Ella Nora Norman > Chester Britton Cooper & Ivy Madaleine Tyler