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Cooke County, Texas

William Gordon Cooke

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 have information on Cooke County history we would love for you to share it.  Send to the Cooke County Coordinator listed at the bottom of this page.

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

The Cross Timbers Genealogical Society will host a Genealogy Seminar in Gainesville, Texas on May 1, 2010 called:   "Our Elusive Ancestors"
(Details about this event will soon be posted.)

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, CENSUS Data, Historical Markers, Texas Death Certificates, Indexes of Books, Marriage, Probate, Delayed Births and Cooke County Archives.
 

                                                                                        QUERIES
                                                                                                            Queries should have a Cooke County Connection

Message Board:  View all queries posted since September 1, 2000.    To search for a specific name, use the "Search" feature and choose the "Cooke Board".  
 

Archieve:
VIEW Cooke County 2009 Queries: (chronological order)
 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
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Send questions or comments about this page to:

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

I would like to thank RootsWeb for the web space to host these pages.

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