Oh I LOVE your story, Vee! Thanks so much for telling it. That's the way I feel when my children & grandkids go through the heritage albums! I want the relatives in the family tree to be more than just names & dates on a computer screen to those in my family. And when they sit around looking at the books and laughing and interacting & remembering things about these people - or commenting about how someone looks like someone else, I am terribly pleased. I know that the reaction of "the kids" (including those balding sons-in-law who are far from kids) has been positive mainly because I've written what I know about the people on the pages by their photos, even if it is something about the aprons grandma wore in some photos & how she made them... and that brings to mind the time she ran the needle through her finger.... and how she sewed on that old treadle machine until she was nearly 90. I think it gives the next generation a connection to these people who were a part of my life but that they never knew. What a great feeling to know that simply through my handwriting these people come alive on the pages of the albums. Spending an hour or so once a week or so on this project has borne more fruit that I can possibly tell. Until the books arrived in our living room, a gradual process I assure you, these people had absolutely no interest in family history... and now they recognize names and sometimes even faces... and seem to care. One of my daughters looks like my grandmother & one of them talks to other people when she's mad _just_ like my grandmother, so I think it's only right that they have some kind of idea who this woman was. And like many things about us, her aprons tell something about the person inside the name "Mary Elizabeth" . On the other hand my other grandmother, Mary Ellen" wouldn't be caught in an apron when anyone was around, and the contrast between them is an interesting thing to write about in the books as well. Hopefully we can encourage others who read these stories to share their own insights into family personalities through passing on the stories to their offspring. I promise that you'll never regret the effort. Susan McMackin Reynolds Lewes Delaware