John, try this site The SurnameNavigator. Click on a country from the drop down list, type in say COONER and then submit/search. It's a powerful genealogical search engine that will search through at least 14 databases at once. Hopefully you have Broadband connection, if not it will take a while but is very well worth it.

Use this search engine for all your surnames, especially the unusual and uncommon ones. You may be very surprised at what you find.

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thanx allycat...i have done that and i do have broadband thank goodness!!

i have found Joho(Yoho) clear to Johannes Joho of Alsace, France/Switzerland and his father Johann Michael(Joho?) Cooner im having hard time finding link between Cooners of SC and AL!! Cresta is very difficult to trace!!! and Glenn im after next!!

only Glenn gets any results but my own in surname search though!!