What a wonderful picture. My great great grandpa William Tuttle "Bill" Cook was an outlaw in the Cook gang who ran around with Cherokee Bill. My maiden name was Cook. So I am also researching Cooks.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Historically called "vaqueros" these cowboys were the heroes of the Wiled West in the U.S. from the 1800s through 1900s.
The word "cowboy" is a direct translation of the Spanish word "vaquero" - literally, cow man, referring to men who took care of cattle. In the Americas, the tradition of vaqueros dates back to the 16t...
My maiden name is Cook. My mother's maiden name is Mounce. I am researching their parents last names and my grandparent's last names as well. My dad's mother really wasn't a Northup, but he treated her as a daughter and I'd like to know about them as well.