About The Garage

The Garage is my workshop where I research and digitize the Fox and Lambrecht family histories. My focus will be the decades between 1860 to 1960, so don't expect that I'll be taking the story back to the Old Country. I'll leave that up to you.

Because I'm going back about a century and a half, I'll be mainly covering the following families: Fox, Cavitt, Dryden, and Carpenter on my paternal side. Lambrecht, Lutter, Marquardt, and Tille on my maternal side.

I want to give a huge thank you to my father and to other members of the family who have done so much already to gather this history. I am most definitely not starting from scratch.

If you'd like to see the family tree as it looks now, visit https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/4754611/family?cfpid=-1551822552

In addition to interesting photos, I'll be sending you a new story each month that I'll be researching. This is the fun part. It's one thing to browse the photos. It's another to learn the stories behind the images.

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I'll also share all of the family photos, documents and stories in my collection. What's in the collection? I have no idea. I'm just digging in. Boxes and boxes of it. And because I'm taking this one box at a time, every new box represents a revelation of new images and stories.

I aim to digitize 50 images per week, organize them, and upload them to an online gallery. There, you can browse through them and download the ones you like for printing. Free of charge. These are the family's images.

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I ask one thing of you: Please share your comments and your own images. Anything you can tell me about the family will be enormously helpful to my research.

By now, you may be wondering why I'm calling it the Garage. Well, I've always liked the idea of a garage workshop. Some of the most significant companies in our country started in a garage.

The Fox Brothers Garage is an important and fascinating story in our family's history. The Lutter brick yards in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood and Glenview had garages. One of Ella Mae Townsend's diners was located alongside a service station.

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I'm restricting membership to family because there is a lot of personal data in here. Though I'm not going to be focusing on living members of the family, I think it's prudent for personal privacy and security to keep everything behind a log in.