The Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, commonly known as Valentine's Manual, was published annually by the city's Common Council from 1841 to 1870, and is of historical interest today partly because of its statistics and listings of officials, but mostly because of historical essays and images added by its compilers unrelated to other specific contents. In the early 20th century, Henry Collins Brown edited Valentine's Manual of the...

Francois Morin (John Francis Morong) was baptized at St-Francois-du-Sud, near Montmagny, Province of Quebec, on 10 Feb. 1742. He was the son of Jacques Morin and Therese Quemleur-Laflamme. He died 1829 at Lubec, Washington Co., Me. He married 1761 Rosalie Forest (b. ca. 1744). She was born in Acadia, probably Beaubassin, the daughter of Francois Forest and Marie-Josephte Girouard. They were parents of eleven children. Family migrated southwesterly...

Rasmus Christiansen was born 14 May 1837 in Time, Rogaland, Norway. His parents were Christian Omundsen and Martha Ellevsdatter. He married Gustine Christiansdatter 16 November 1865. They had twelve children. They emigrated in 1872 and settled first in Quebec and changed their name to Johnson. They lived in Illinois, Minnesota, and Utah. Rasmus died in 1922 in Park City, Utah. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Utah and Idaho.

"This brief monograph is the result of a casual request by my daughter, Rebel, to learn something about her family ... A genealogy can be traced in two directions: you can start with some one from a long time ago and trace all of his (or her) descendants; or you can start with a contemporary person and try to track his ancestry. Since Rebel wanted to know about her family, the latter approach was the only choice." (Introduction). The earliest Wood...

Chiefly ancestors and family of the author and her husband, with documentation. Bonnie May Van Kirk was born in 1944 at Flint, Michigan, and was adopted by Charles William Van Kirk (1906-1975) and Nella Wilma Tanis Van Kirk (1905-1960). She married Michael William Ramsdell in 1968 at Fort Leonard Wood, Pulaski County, Missouri. He was born at Taft, California, in 1944, the son of George Melford Ramsdell (b. 1913) and Ruth Elizabeth Vaughan Ramsdell...

Edward Sprague of Upway, Dorsetshire, England married Christian. They had six children. He died ca. 1614. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts.

Franz or Frank Georg Walter Pagel was born 4 February 1897 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His parents were Albert "Hermann" Heinrich Pagel and Mary Magdalena Breister. He married Theresa Rose Schmidt (1896-1957), daughter of Peter A. Schmidt and Anna Wirth, 8 May 1917. They had six children. Frank died 3 August 1988 in Ripon, Wisconsin. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany and Wisconsin.

Peter Crary was born in about 1645 in Scotland. He was living in Groton, Connecticut by 1663. He married Christobel Gallup in 1677. They had seven children. He died in 1708. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Washington and California. Christopher Crary may have been his father and John Crary may have been his brother.