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Cooke County, Texas
 

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Welcome to the home page of Cooke County on the TXGenWeb Project. Hopefully you will find these pages useful in your search for your ancestors in Cooke County. PLEASE NOTE that this is an all volunteer project and that we can use all the help we can get. If you can help in any way (even a little), Read This.

Your host for this website is the Cross Timbers Genealogical Society.


COUNTY INFORMATION

Look Here for Cooke County Information: Look here for Governmental Office CONTACTS, MAPS, ON-LINE Information, PUBLICATIONS List, Other LINKS, Surrounding Counties List, etc.

The county seat is at Gainesville, Texas, which is the largest population center and located seven miles south of the Red River and seventy one miles north of Dallas.  Cooke County was established on March 20, 1848, and named for William G. Cooke, a hero of the Texas Revolution.


RESEARCH INFORMATION

Look Here for Cooke County On-Line Data:  Look here for on-line data such as CEMETERY listings, Cemetery names, Newspaper and Periodical excerpts, Book INDEXES, CENSUS Data, VOTER lists, etc.
 


QUERIES

SUBMIT Cooke County Queries: Enter queries for INDIVIDUALS you are seeking here. They will appear in one of the View links (below) usually within a few days .... it may take a week. If you are new to posting queries, Read This First .

VIEW Newest (not yet screened) Queries:
 

 VIEW Cooke County 2008 Queries:  (chronological order)      VIEW Cooke County 2002 Queries:  (chronological order)
 VIEW Cooke County 2007 Queries:  (chronological order)      VIEW Cooke County 2001 Queries:  (chronological order)
 VIEW Cooke County 2006 Queries:  (chronological order)      VIEW Cooke County 2000 Queries:  - (chronological order)                                                                                            
 VIEW Cooke County 2005 Queries:  (chronological order)      VIEW Cooke County 1999 Queries:  - (rev. chronological)
 VIEW Cooke County 2004 Queries:  (chronological order)      VIEW Cooke County 1996-98 Queries: (rev. chronological)
 VIEW Cooke County 2003 Queries:  (chronological order)      View Old General Area Queries 1996-1997:

Questions? A small group of volunteers have offered to answer questions and do limited lookups of genealogical and historical information about Cooke County. Please be mindful of the fact these volunteers who are members of the Cross Timbers Genealogical Society will charge a reasonable fee to do the research on your behalf.   (This fee is used by CTGS to provide research materials for our local libraries.)  Email your questions to ctgs2009@yahoo.com and some member of the group will respond as soon as possible.


                                                       








TXGenWeb State Coordinator
Shirley Cullum

                                                                                                 
 TXGenWeb Assistant State Coordinators
Elaine Martin 
Jane Keppler

                            


Send questions or comments about this page to:

Norman L. Newton, Cooke County Coordinator
Dick Sparkman, Assistant County Coordinator

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