Cook Family Heritage – Bartels Family

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Joe

Bartels Family

One ancestor of the Cook family is the Bartel family that originated in Germany. A great deal of information has been obtained through the assistance of Carol Haszto, a former co-worker of Joe Ragucci, who was searching her ancestors and came across Sophia Bartels and Charles Eustace as best man and maid of honor at her great grandparents wedding in 1888. Specific documentation includes:

1880 New York City census listing for the Sophia Bartels Eustace family
1882 Marriage record for Charles Eustace and Sophia Bartels
1900 New York City census listing for the Sophia Bartels Eustace Collins family
Genealogy records from Oldenburg,Germany

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Cook Family – “recollections”

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Joe

Add stories about the Cook family:

Summers at the Jersey shore
John “running away from home”
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Ragucci-Cook, Rosalie – The night Santa didn’t come

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Rosalie

Every child is anxious for Christmas morning. Awakening to see the presents under the tree is every child’s dream come true. One Christmas Eve when I (Rosalie) was 5 or 6 years old, I woke up and assumed that it must be Christmas morning already. I snuck out of my bedroom and crept to the stairs to peek at the tree. I was devestated when I saw that the tree was empty and there were no presents! I remember looking in the stockings for coal. I couldn’t understand why there was no coal and no presents. Continue reading →