Excerpt from The Garber Historical and Genealogical Record, Vol. 1: A Publication Devoted to the History and Genealogy of the Garber Family in America; Number 1, 1937
As the fringe of our frontier was pushed westward the ever present spirit of adventure and the desire to pioneer new lands led many relatives from their ancestral homes. To all parts of America. They migrated. So widely scattered have they become, that the reader may easily imagine the enor mous task involved in acquiring detailed information from a so greatly diffused people. As the Family History assumes its initial form, the biographies of more than fifteen hundred liv ing and deceased relatives have been recorded. Yet I may safely add, that this figure represents less than one fourth of the progeny of our parent who migrated from Switzerland.
A family genealogy and history has a definite public value. Its value as a public document is no less than its value to the family whose history is narrated therein. In it the lives of prominent men and women are recorded, military records of relatives are recounted, literary works of contributing rela tives are published, and the vital statistics of the family are tabulated. A biography of each and every relative, both direct and by marriage, is given. Old pictures of families. Reunions. Family heads, homesteads, prominent relatives. Historical items. Etc. Are reproduced. Court records and published works from which a considerable amount of information has been gleaned are listed in the bibliography.
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