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...

If you are reading or have read some of my posts on the genealogy of the Garlock family, I want to be sure you understand what you are...