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Cooke County, Texas

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

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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 that these are volunteers that do not have time to do extensive research in your behalf. Email your question to ask cooke link and some member of the group will respond as soon as possible. After selecting this link, remove the "x_" at the beginning of the email address or the mail will bounce back to you.

Send questions or comments about this page to:
 Norman L. Newton, County Coordinator
Dick Sparkman, Assistant County Coordinator

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