Lori Cook

Ancestors

Daughter of Don Alan Cook and Linda Mildred (Whitney) Cook

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Biography

My Family.

Lori spends way too much time on WikiTree.

Lori Cook is a member of the Cook Name Study Project.

My wonderful parents are: Don Cook and Linda Whitney

My siblings and I were Raised in Boise, ID and moved to Oregon with our parents in 1970.

My Dad Don, -Dad was raised Mormon when he was young, he had many family documents and he handed them down to me to keep in the Family Bible.

He moved all of the family to Molalla, OR where we grew up enjoying fishing, camping and the outdoors. We got to do so much of this in Idaho he wanted to make sure that we never missed out on any of it, even though we moved. He never got to enjoy this kind of life until he married mom and her family took hold of him and showed him what nature and the love of the outdoors was all about.

Lori Cook has Norwegian ancestors

I then, several years ago began to put it into place. In 2006 mom got sick and her memory started to fade. In 2004 I transferred it onto ancestry.com and continued where she left off. This tree is visible to all, I had no idea at the time of where to go to put it all into one place, and not have the millions of paper documents that can perish in time. She passed in 2021, I am so thankful that I learned so much from her and the the genealogy bug passed on to me.

I have much more to add and the time I have depends on work and schedules at home. I am carrying on where she left off and am still growing this family tree.

Our Lives Continue--PAST to PRESENT to the FUTURE

Our Legacy

I love to see where we have been and where we are going. A family is always continuing and I love being part of that and working with my mom on this endeavor.

I have had the honor to meet many cousins along the way, our relations are quite large and continue to grow. I love the connecting and with that research always continues to find the answers all are looking for.

I recently had my DNA tested to help another family cousin to find a lost member. It is quite wonderful to have had the opportunity to help in anyway I could to provide more information to make connections.

I have over 10,000 family members recorded on my Ancestrytree at this time and here I do not have them all because I would have to upload so much. So this will be a slow process for me to redo here. I will probably begin with immediate descendants to connect to this World Tree.

LET THE CONNECTIONS BEGIN

I enjoy finding the proper paperwork to go with the history: Family Bible, Certificates of Birth and Death, Military Info, Naturalization Papers, Immigration, Wedding Cert, Baptisms etc. Many items I have on hand personally which is so terrific.

Research Research Research

Info found on Ancestry can be good IF used correctly and then when found research to prove. I was lucky and have many pieces of these papers and photos that were handed down from years ago and left in the family Bibles for today's researching families. I see that these people are just not my family, as I am proud to say, but we are one huge family interconnected and I wish to share what I have with all.

I also have near 2000 photos (many more not scanned yet). If you see a family member of yours I may have more photos just ask, I would love to share.

I have many relatives to set up with proper sources, so I will be here and very busy.

My Ancestry Tree is Holm/Porter/Whitney/Cook [1]

I am a Find A Grave Member

I also work on FamilySearch.org

Belong to WRG- Whitney Research Group

My DNA Kit is A377136

I do not belong to the The Church of Latter Day Saints, I did when I was a child in Boise, Idaho. I can do research for assistance though. if needed. I can help in many ways

Completed GEDcompare to most people, too many in my GEDcom to load all.

I connected my over 10000 family connections by hand instead of uploading as it made it much easier going one on one to make sure they were complete--in doing so I find my DNA connections much easier alongwith connecting to the ones already here--It was great and with less mistakes. (The mistakes are there but they seem to be fewer)

I also being a member of Find A Grave, I find myself searching for cemeteries and people with profiles without dates being an area I like to solve with records for their lives and add when I can, many are not even related but profile is minimal to completely empty. I add to at least get some info on the profile so they can be connected where they need to be.

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Lori Cook at registration.

• Wisconsin Historical Society<[2]>

• A FAV spot to understand Norwegian language when researching: This helps me<[3]>

• England Find My Past<[4]>