468. My early interest in Genealogy, and "How Family History Became my Powerful New Passion", by Janice Kapp Perry, in Meridian Magazine.
About age 16, I developed a tremendous interest in genealogy. It was about the time I received my Patriarchal Blessing. The old county library, long since demolished, had a section of genealogy books about early New England and I loved to pour over them. The old Library in St. George, where I spent many hours. Reading was the main entertainment during the long hot summers here in St. George. I had Aunt Sarah Wallace, my father's sister, and Aunt Vina Brooks, my mother's sister, who each had done considerable work on my two sides of the family. In those days there were no copy machines, and I had borrowed and copied many sheets of the long pedigree charts and family group sheets. I would look for those names in the books, and find it most fascinating. Those names were of our ancestors who came to the United States in the 1600's, mostly Connecticut and Massachusetts. At Christmas time I had dinner at a friend's home and her brother was...