The same goes for MARTIN -- I found as many German MARTINs as I did Scotch-Irish...and York County, PA is a melting pot where you will find both...so never ASSume. There are also Swedish COOKs! Many of the Jersey COOKs were Early Swedes who descend from a COCK (the ship's cook...when the immigrants adopted an "alias" because they didn't have an actual surname they often used their occupation for their surname). Joan In a message dated 12/29/2011 6:25:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, lmerle@comcast.net writes: Hi folks, another 'no brainer' is to go to www.genealogical.com and search for your surnames. A large percent of their books are indexed on line. You can enter your surname and first name (upper left hand corner) and it'll tell you which books have hits. You can then buy all those books if you won the lottery. Or use worldcat.org to find a library nearby with the book, see if it is in the FHL, or use the Internet to find free lookups. A number of CDs are on line at www.genealogy.com but require a subscription. It might be cheaper to get for a year than to travel all over the world printing out CDs. Many of these older books are free at google books too. Sometimes this includes ones that Eneclan is selling at a hefty price! I searched Cook and got 22,000 plus hits at genealogical.com .What shows up is a lot in New England and the southern colonies. It's not really common in PA at all. I have also seen where it is an anglicization of Koch, a German name, which we do have lots of in PA. There were also some in NJ, apparently (hits in NJ books) and apparently in the Welsh colony. DNA???? Linda Merle ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCOTCH-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message