However,surely someone in the family must know where in Lancashire your grandmother came from? She must have talked about her home town and her English roots at some time. Actually Roy, this is the problem with Grandma Edith. By the time I was old enough to ask questions she had already passed away. My father,her son, having no interest whatever in genealogy, simply never asked about her past. I have no idea which city or town she came from. Rigth now I'm trying to find out where and when she and Grandpa were married. ( Dad doesn't know this either) Anyway, two years ago while in Phoenix, I spent the better part of three days at the LDS center there. Most of the time I spent working on the MacGregor side of the family and things have really come together on that. I have been into the familysearch.org website and I just can't find anything about the Cockayne's. For a long time I just couldn't understand why my father had never been interested in his own family history, but I've resigned myself to the fact that everyone does not share my passion for a paper trail. I do thank you for shedding some light on British research, and if you have anymore suggestion's I'm listening. Sheila shegrim@aol.com