Charlie, I suggest you invest by buying the silver book volume 12 if you want to join the Mayflower Society based on Cooke lineage, based on Society accepted info. It definitely has 1. Francis Cooke m. Hester Mahieu 2. Mary Cooke m. John Tomson 3. Hester Tomson m. William Reed 4. Sarah Reed m. Hezekiah King 5. Mary King m. Henry Woodward 6. Eunice Woodward That book alone, with dates and pages, should satisfy a Mayflower Society application from Francis the Pilgrim down to Eunice Woodward...but not her husband. After that, the burden of proof is on you. Good luck. Marty Irons ------------------------------------------- A possible remote COOKE cousin... I'm having trouble with proof on one generation myself (not your immediate line). I'm 99% convinced it's accurate...I knew my grandmother, who knew her grandmother, who certainly should have known who were her parents...but...that's not good enough for the Mayflower Society. They want solid proof so that mistakes are not carried forward to future generations. I concur strongly with that concept. ------------------------------------------- Past lineage IS...we can not change it, and we don't want to pass on inaccurate lineage information to the future. There's too much of that in old genealogies, World Family Tree, and other internet info. Don't trust them. Treat them merely as clues, and research to prove them wrong, as many will be. I could tell Broderbund Co. that you were my GGM and they would slap it on a CD and sell it in the World Family Tree series, and others would believe it. ------------------------------------------- Broderbund Co. verifies nothing!!! How could they possibly verify millions of ancestries? Impossible. Therefore...look at anything on World Family Tree CD's as nothing more than a clue...not proof until proven via RELIABLE sources. I'm not knocking Broderbund Co....I'm just saying that it's >impossible< for Broderbund to economically verify all input, so they just slap it on a CD-ROM, and the burden of proof is on you, the user. If the person who sent info to Broderbund was 100% accurate..WONDERFUL!!! But if they were NOT accurate??? 50/50. Either they were accurate or they were not accurate...at each generation. 50/50.