Winifred Lucille Palmer was born in 1909 in Massachusetts. She married William A. Brachvogel and they were the parents of at least one daughter. They lived in New York for many years and she worked on genealogy both for her family lines and for other people. Materials she collected are included in this collection. Contains materials collected by and for Delores Smith Pinkham who was born in Vermont in 1906. She married Clarence Dewey Pinkham and...

Ansel Brainerd Cook was born 8 August 1823 in Haddam, Connecticut. His parents were Willard C. Cook (1799-1873) and Abigail Brainerd (1801-1854). He married Maria Foster 2 December 1849 in Illinois. She died in 1881. He married Annie Barrows 2 February 1882 in Illinois. She died in 1891. He married Emily B. Barrows 6 September 1892. He died 10 June 1898 in Libertyville, Illinois. Ancestors and relatives lived mainly in Illinois, Connecticut and England....

The author states he has " ... been able to trace back about 10 generations from the present to one Richard Gabriel of Franklin County, Pa., whose will was probated in 1798. He had two sons, Abraham and John who are the progenitors of the Gabriels of Muskingum and Athens Counties and of the Washington County, Maryland Gabriels and Union County, Ohio Gabriels. He also had three daughters about whose descendants I do not know."--P. 9 Descendants...