Welcome to my extensive family tree. My mother's surname family names include SPIDLE/COX/HAIL  and HILLEMAN. My father's surname family names include LOCK/LACH/MITTELSTADT/GERBER and WHITE.  
 I have been researching these family names now for years. It all started when I was a little  boy, I found that I could get the adults to talk to me and really open up when I would ask them  questions about old pictures that were in the house. I also would hear wonderful stories that  my parents would tell me of their families and parents and grandparents.

What started off as a hobby turned into a passion. The old pictures in the scrapbooks I would  see in my great aunts and uncles always fascinated me. Family reunions were my favorite times.  I began to study the field of genealogy through books written by experts and many visits to  the libraries. This was before the internet when libraries were still the source for many  historical facts.

Genealogy has been a life-long passion, almost a spiritual quest. Knowing who we are and where  we came from goes a long way to helping us feel like we belong to something larger than  ourselves -- we belong to the history of mankind.

Feel free to sign the guest book and say "Hi".

Also, if any of you are on Ancestry.com, please shoot me a message at chefronlock@gmail.com and  let me know how we are related and if you have any pictures of information to add this tree.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the information and memories!