This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooke/Fisher/Hopkins/Howland/Tilley/Warren Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FO.2ADI/362.1.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Harlow, for quieting the waters! I never thought that bringing up a questionable line could start such a firestorm. Especially since I was questioning it myself from the beginning. Unfortunately the original post had a strategic typo or two (the 3 AM kind), was too long, and should have been more directly phrased. I won't be repeating the mistake! My mailbox is on fire... Who would a thunk it? Especially since I immediately apologized for my sins to the entire group, even going so far as to resend the post with the typo's corrected & went out of the way to thank everyone who spent valuable time seriously considering the data in the post. I have not participated in this group very much, however I have spent some time reading many of the group's interesting posts. I mean I have seen many far "dumber", "far-fetched"? inquiries posted to the group, but for some reason my post set off or pushed more that a few buttons. My sincere thanks to those of you (like yourself) who have calmly and patiently answered my questions and corrected the inaccuracies in the inquiry. I agree that Mary has lent enough of her DNA (and far more) to our (much diluted) generation and would be having quite a laugh at the thought that such a distant future generation would be making such a fuss over her . I am not going to answer any more posts under this subject heading unless someone brings up something critical to the inquiry. I do think we have more than covered (& debunked) this "mythical" Cooke/Tobey lineage. Good night all! Cheers! KT Lee