Why I wrote "Perley"

It wasn't until my father died in the year 2000 that I really became interested in the family history. Unfortunately, with his passing I realized that I had lost an invaluable resource to the past. And I had never questioned him in detail about the family history. In fact before he died I didn't take the time to find out what questions needed asking. Like so many I was tied up with my own family and raising my children. It wasn't until I started sorting through all the family pictures in that infamous box of old photos in the attic that I realized I didn't know half the people in them and, of course, no one had bothered to label them. It took me a while but with other family members help, I was able to figure out who most of these people were and it made me wonder how many family pictures my remaining aunts, uncles and cousins might have, all of us being something of packrats. (to be continued)