Welcome, Cool family members & researchers!

In this Cool genealogy site I have placed all the information I have on the descendants of Jacob Cool (b. abt 1775 in PA or VA according to US Censuses) and his wife Jane Welch. Descendants

To see each three-generation descendancy page, click on the highlighted "Descendants" link of the family you are interested in. You can then follow further links down to the present generation.

For some of the pages with family photos, I have added "hot spots" at each person's face. If you click at that spot, you will jump to the line where that person is listed.

If there is biographical information about an individual, the name of that person will be highlighted, and a click on the name will take you to the biography page.

Images of a number of Census records are included. Click on the highlighted Census year in an individual's biographical page to see the Census listing!

Check out the Mystery Page with unidentified photos of probable Cool ancestors!

Enjoy!

Rootsweb has set up a nice Cool Family Calendar for posting and viewing family events.

There is a Cool Family Genealogy Forum hosted by GenForum where family history researchers can post their questions and discoveries. Check it out!

This Cool family history site is dedicated to the memory of Wayne Winget Cool (1927-1993) who devoted many years to genealogical research on our family and who generously shared his information.

Thanks also are due to Jerry Burns for provision of excellent data on the descendants of Marcus L. Cool.

There are still many "holes" and no doubt some errors in this family history. Also, I would like to add much more biographical information, old photos, etc.

If you can contribute something to improve or extend the Cool family history, please mail or e-mail information to me and it will be published here as soon as possible.

Thanks!