This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FO.2ADI/362.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Your line may be correct if you have proven from yourself up to the point where you have tried to connect to Mary Cooke. But you have already received a message that tells you that Mary Cooke (born 1626) married Lt John Tompson/Thompson and not to a Tobey. Your Tobey may have married a Mary Cook(e), but not THE Mary Cook(e) who is the daughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. Some of the names that you have in your line are familiar, but I do not have any of your specific names in my database to make any kind of a connection to your lineage. I would suggest you consult the Massachusetts Vital Records that have been published, more famliarly called "the tan series" to check the early people before 1850. After 1850 you need to check for census records or vital records by ordering copies from the various towns or counties where your family resided to prove your line.