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David Cooper
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Son of Bert Cooper
and Vera (Merrill) Cooper
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Aug 2016 | Last significant change: 1 Jan 2021
00:06: Admin WikiTree added the December 2020 Club 1,000 badge for David Cooper. [Thank Admin for this]
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David Cooper was born in Bedfordshire, England.
David Cooper has completed the England Project's Orphan Trail.
Biography
Sunday 21 July 2019 This may be myy last contrbution to WikiTree. Woke up this moring unable to seeanything but a blur out of my right eye, my left eye being virtually useless, as you can see by my typing.
Diabetes has caught up with me, sooner than I expected. I or my son will update this with any news.
Feb 2020 - sight is slowly returning to my right eye, and I'm due to have an operation on it at the end of the month. (Postponed due to coronavirus) Heart surgery in the meantime has slowed up progress with the eye. I was lucky. The anaesthetist for my eye operation in August didn't like the sound of my heart so referred me to my cardiologist who vetoed the operation, saying I might not survive the general anaesthetic, and I had a heart operation instead. If I hadn't have gone blind I might not be here today! I'm back on WT with renewed enthusiasm! Albeit at a slower pace as I can't read my textbooks.
March 2020 - lockdown here in France means that I can concentrate on adding more names from my database to WT, and trying to reduce the Unsourced and Suggestion lists for Bedfordshire. I can truthfully say that WT is helping to maintain my sanity during this difficult time.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with David or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage (beta) of DNA with David:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with David or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage (beta) of DNA with David:
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100.00%
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David Cooper:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member david11000
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~0.78%
Tom Craft
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about David:
- David Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 22, 2020.
- David Cooper is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 27, 2019.
David is 39 degrees from Dick Bruna, 24 degrees from Walt Disney, 31 degrees from May Gibbs, 27 degrees from George Herriman, 36 degrees from Tove Jansson, 31 degrees from Walter Lantz, 28 degrees from Charles Schulz, 24 degrees from Elzie Segar, 37 degrees from 治虫 手塚 and 29 degrees from Pam Cormac on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
When you've been virtually blind you don't half appreciate sight!
Much appreciated.
edited by David Cooper
We have not received a reply from you regarding the message we recently sent about England Project. We hope you are OK. We realise that your interests could have moved on, and so if we do not hear from you by the end of December we will presume that you wish to be removed from the Project. You will be welcome to rejoin us at a later time if you wish.
Joan, Amy & Lizzie.
I"m very happy concentrating on Bedfordshire and would like to continue in the role of leader of Beds if I may. It fits one person just nicely, I try not to spend more than 12 hours a day on WT as I don't want to strain my eyes having gone blind for 7 months in 2019. For that reason I was forced to stop all WT activity including Google Groups and Discord while I waited to see if my sight came back. Fortunately the specialist hospital in Toulouse was right and it was partially restored in February. But I haven't picked up on Discord etc again, not that I used it much anyway. The admin side of WT doesn't do a lot for me; I prefer researching or tidying up Bedfordshire profiles, which I suppose is admin of a sort! I am always mindful that my eyes could go again at a stroke and I don't want to get too involved in more than Bedfordshire in case the worst happens again .
So that's the position so far as Beds and I are concerned. Beds Unsourced are as good as any county, suggestions get cleared immediately if I can understand how to fix them which isn't always the case, and it bugs me that I ca n't connect more unconnecteds and even more so when as happened last week I spent a full day connecting a tree of 2 people! It was a name in my part of Beds! It's nearly midnight in France and almost time when I turn into a pumpkin.
Thanks for all your hard work
Best regards
David
It's that time of the year again: check-in time! As England Project Leaders, we like to check in with you every six months or so to see how things are progressing. Back in May, we didn't ask for a response due to the rapid emergence of Covid-19 because we understood that people's lives were changing rapidly. While we are still living in a Covid world, we do need to hear back from you this time around.
First of all, how are you doing? What are you currently working on? Are you happy with the team(s) you're in, or would you like to change things up?
Secondly, we're looking for some feedback on the Google Group and our Discord server. Do you use either or both of these? If you don't use either, why not? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve participation and collaboration, either generally or for you personally?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Joan, Amy & Lizzie.
All the best
David
Your England Leaders are completing the six monthly check in with all team members. I wanted to thank you for your work on English Profiles. These are unprecedented and difficult times, and we understand as Project Leaders that your situation may have changed somewhat in the last few months. What we are all able to/ wish to contribute on Wikitree has changed. Please let me know if you are happy with your current role and team choice or if you wish to do something additional or different. Thank you again on behalf of all the project leaders for everything you do!
Kindest Regards, Amy Utting
Yes I'm fine with everything as it is. Bedfordshire is just fine for me.
Regards
David
This is Carl Miller. Don't give up on diabetes. I've had it for over 20-years now; last 10-yrs on insulin. I use My eyes to gauge my blood-sugar !! My eyes get blurry when My sugar is too low !! I'm in My nineth year now but still able to type !!
P.S. I also use blood test strips !!!
Carl
Having had major heart surgery in September I'm just grateful to be here.
Stay healthy.
Thanks again
David
I'm sorry to hear (read) about your ailments. I hope you will get better soon. I am responding to your Buckeley/Buckley merge. First I can not merge until I get to my Buckeley/Buckley ancestors. In which case I have 3 different family lines. One which does not belong to me genetically, but does have some connection to me. The other 2 lines, I have not completed as yet. One family is from Ireland and the other is from England. My English line is from Rev. Peter Buckeley/Buckly/Buckely and his 2 wives, Alice and Jane. All 3 have Royal descent. Rev. Peter was from Connecticut. The other 2 families are from Ireland/England. I need to get to that point in my tree to make a merge. Thank you for the request. Julie Lowell
On behalf of the England Leaders, I wanted to say a huge thank you for all your contributions towards the project in the past six months as a Team Member for Bedfordshire and Norfolk. We've achieved a great deal during this time and we couldn't have done it without you.
Are you happy to stay in your current teams and the project as a whole? Are there any other teams you'd like to join? What are we doing well, and what would you like to see us doing differently moving forwards?
Please respond to this message via e-mail. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks,
Susie, England Project Leader :-)
The Appreciation Team thanks you for all for your hard work for reaching 1000+ (actually, over 1200!) contributions for the month July 2019. Onward and upward!
Pip Sheppard
WikiTree Appreciation Team
We realise the time has come to dissolve the UK Project in favour of the individual country projects of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
We are checking in with all UK badge holders to find out which country project(s) you would like to be in so you can collaborate with other members, have the opportunity to select which team(s) you would like to join, and so we can ensure you have all the correct badges.
Please respond by PM to let us know which country project(s) you would like to be in. Please dont assume we know. We are effectively starting from scratch to make sure no one falls through the cracks.
Once you have done this, the Coordinator for Membership in the relevant country project(s) will be in touch to help get you situated.
Many thanks,
Susie
Very well done on your making 1,000 or more contributions to WikiTree in June 2019! We commend and appreciate all of your time and effort in helping to grow and perfect our Shared Tree. Keep up the great work!
Pip Sheppard ~ WikiTree Appreciation Team