Hi All, Since this seemed to be a day of poetry on the mail group, I thought I might share this one with you all. For you genealogy addicts out there, I think you might relate to this: FAMILY I can't quite explain what started me to look for historical information on our Family Cooke But I asked many questions of my dad, that very day "Who are my relatives, what's the Family Bible say?" With eager pen and paper I started to write down All the names of ancestors that we had just found. So one hot day in August I turned on my PC to see what I could find on this Carolina family. Much to my surprise I found alot of Cookes all looking for their lineage in web pages and in books "Are you my cousin? Will you exchange with me? I think you are connected to the same family tree!" So I started posting on newsgroups and email and that is what lead me to find my cousin Dale Of all the things I've learned of my Cooke family line He is without a doubt my most treasured find. I never knew about him or he about me But now we search together and trace our genealogy We have found our ancestors on records and in graves And it makes us wonder How their life was in those days Their lives mean more to us than just a record of names Their memory is alive Their blood is in our veins We are happy to know them in this strange and distant way For without them ever living we would not be here today. by Roberta Cooke Schmidt Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it! Roberta tps914@aol.com Cooke Connections http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4665/ ==== GenHumor Mailing List ==== !^NavFont02F05000006NGHHLIAFAE