Carole, Yes, I remember Arthur Hooker who lived in British Columbia. I too corresponded with him very briefly long before I developed a serious interest in my ancestry. I think I still have one eight page report from him, but it basically just summarizes the family of Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, CT. Your Hooker early history was of interest, that part going to a Henry Hucker, married in Boston in the early 1700s. A Hooker cousin of mine says our grandfather often remarked about descending from a Henry Hooker. (My parents divorced when I was young, so I never heard these stories.) Once I started a vigorous tracing of our line, it led me to a Robert Hucker, living in what became Prince Georges County, Maryland, in the late 1600s. His name was given as Hucker, Hawker and Hooker. His parents are unknown, but I found an old report on a CD-ROM that claimed my Robert's parents were Thomas Hawker and Patience, formerly married to Henry Needham. I have been able to document these three individuals in Maryland during the latter half of the 1600s, but not the names of their children. My Robert Hooker married Amee Selby, then died in Prince Georges County around 1711. Robert's will conveniently listed not only his children, but their birth dates: Samuel, b. October 11, 1699, married a woman named Margaret Elizabeth, b. December 14, 1701, and later married Samuel Pruitt Robert, b. September 11, 1706, married Elizabeth Deakins Amy, b. July 27, 1708 Tom Hooker Orlando