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...

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...

The earliest records of the Garlock Family are hard to come by. For the first couple of generations after coming to America, there is...

I couldn't write about the Garlocks of New York without mentioning the incredible impact the French and Indian War and the American...

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...

I first published this Post in 2022. Since then I have found new information that changes the story significantly. I originally based my...

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...

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...

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...

I've been researching Rev. Charles Garlock and his kin for some time now. Maranda Garlock's youngest son Edson Jason Garlock was Charles'...

In our last adventure, I had downloaded a slew of fun items from the Morningside College annual yearbooks on my grandfather Charles...

Another great resource I discovered during my research was old yearbooks. People have scanned old high school and college yearbooks and...

I spent several months researching the Rev. Charles Garlock and his family. What an interesting guy. This piece is the culmination of...

My research into the Garlock family took a real turn when I subscribed to Newpapers.com. This site is a repository of millions of...

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,...

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...

When I wrote the piece about Vera, I was particularly struck that she had simply been forgotten by the family. Unfortunately, mental...

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...

When I published my first story "How the West Was Won by the Garlock Family", I briefly introduced the oldest daughter of Rev. Charles...

I have no training or background in history. This is something that became an interest to me after retirement in October of 2019, and...