Well, this is me!

You see, I'm from Licking County, Ohio.

Garry L. McLaughlin ~ April 25, 2006

Photo is a little weak. It is a 3rd generation copy, 1998

Me in my "Let's be serious", mood!

A Brief Biography

I was born and raised in Newark, Licking County, Ohio. I played trombone in the band and was a drum major for the Newark High School Marching Band. Favorite subjects in school were; history, music, science and art. My mother taught me my love for music and my father taught me the basic skills of the outdoors, including hunting, trapping and fishing. All these skills I tried to perfect to the point that I had careers in several of them. I have always been the type of person that there was never a challenge to large or small to tackle and never a job I couldn't do if there was information available to learn it. Through out life I have been challenged from within to go after what others felt I couldn't do. New vocations were never far from my mind when I got bored with the one I was doing at the time. I have had careers as a State and Federal Game Protector, Deputy Sheriff, Technical Writer and Illustrator, Managing a Game Farm and Shooting Club, Manufacturing and Managing a Jewelry Store, Acting, Land Manager for a State Agency, and Owning and Operating a Printing Company.

I have always had one or more hobby and have usually been consumed by it until something new caught my eye as a greater challenge. Some of them are: Hunting, trapping, fishing, stamp collecting, coin collecting, painting, photography, singing, taxidermy, raising flowers, playing the organ, woodwork, acting, writing, computers and genealogy. Several of these ended up as opportunities to make additional income, i.e., acting, trapping, taxidermy, genealogy, painting, writing and photography.

By in large I have had a very successful life and have experienced the normal trauma of this modern age, such as being divorced, and never enough time or opportunity to learn all of the new technology that is available today.

I have one son, Brad by my first marriage, who has a beautiful little girl by the name of Heather. I have one older sister, Carole; two younger sisters, Marilyn and Marjorie; and a younger brother Jack. I had two wonderful parents in Dalton and Elizabeth. My father passed away in October of 1999 and my mother in November 2005.

I now live in Newark, Ohio. I am deeply engrossed in my family's genealogy and have compiled 38,000+ names linked to both sides of my family. Some of these names and information may be seen by clicking here:

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