20. Our Garlock Ancestors.
This story is my attempt to bring together information about all our ancestors I've written about into one document. It not so much a...
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Mark Jamison
Apr 19, 20231 min read
19. Source Materials.
Like the previous post, this is not for everyone. But, if you are interested in doing some research or reading on your own to expand your...
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Mark Jamison
Apr 19, 20231 min read
18. Ancestral Decisions.
The earliest records of the Garlock Family are hard to come by. For the first couple of generations after coming to America, there is...
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Mark Jamison
Apr 15, 20231 min read
17. Garlocks at war.
I couldn't write about the Garlocks of New York without mentioning the incredible impact the French and Indian War and the American...
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Mark Jamison
Apr 15, 20231 min read
16. The Garlocks of New York.
Once Johann Peter and Johann Christian Gerlach came to America, it took them a while to get settled. New York State was a wild place in...
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Mark Jamison
Apr 15, 20231 min read
Episode One - Palatine Beginnings. (2023 Version)
I first published this Post in 2022. Since then I have found new information that changes the story significantly. I originally based my...
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Mark Jamison
May 4, 20221 min read
15. episode one - Palatine Beginnings
And now we go back to the beginnings of the Garlock story. Episode One. Back to Europe, to Germany. Back to the 1500's, 1600's and...
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Mark Jamison
May 4, 20221 min read
14. Charles & Stella
An so, having written about the ancestry of both the the Garlock Family and the Miller Family, it's time to address how the two families...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
12. Stella (Miller) Garlock - The Prequel
After I wrote my first story, my mom (Charlotte Jamison) asked if I had found out anything about the Miller side of the family. I really...
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Mark Jamison
Feb 17, 20211 min read
11. Let's Not forget Edson
I've been researching Rev. Charles Garlock and his kin for some time now. Maranda Garlock's youngest son Edson Jason Garlock was Charles'...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 18, 20211 min read
10. Simpson College Zenith Yearbook
In our last adventure, I had downloaded a slew of fun items from the Morningside College annual yearbooks on my grandfather Charles...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 17, 20212 min read
9. The Morningside College Sioux Annual Yearbook
Another great resource I discovered during my research was old yearbooks. People have scanned old high school and college yearbooks and...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 16, 20211 min read
8. The Travels and Tribulations of the Rev. Charles William Garlock.
I spent several months researching the Rev. Charles Garlock and his family. What an interesting guy. This piece is the culmination of...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 15, 20211 min read
7. Rev. Charles William Garlock in the (old) News
My research into the Garlock family took a real turn when I subscribed to Newpapers.com. This site is a repository of millions of...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 14, 20211 min read
6. The Miller Family
When I started doing this research, I focused on the Garlock side of my family rather than the Jamisons. With my mother being a Garlock,...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 13, 20211 min read
5. On the Road to Find the Garlock Family.
In September of last Ann and I took a road trip in our RV to track down some of the Garlock Family members I had been writing about. The...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 8, 20211 min read
4. Cherokee Mental Health Institute
When I wrote the piece about Vera, I was particularly struck that she had simply been forgotten by the family. Unfortunately, mental...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 7, 20211 min read
3. Postscript to the Story of Maranda Garlock
When I noted in my earlier post that Maranda Garlock was remarried after she moved to Sioux City, I did not know much about her life and...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 3, 20211 min read
2. Why is it Nobody Seems to Know About Vera Edith Garlock?
When I published my first story "How the West Was Won by the Garlock Family", I briefly introduced the oldest daughter of Rev. Charles...
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Mark Jamison
Jan 2, 20211 min read
1. How the West Was Won by the Garlock Family.
I have no training or background in history. This is something that became an interest to me after retirement in October of 2019, and...
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