My Bingham Family

This fall was a time of family history for me.  Besides working on the Book of Remembrance, I decided it was high time for me to finish up a project I began a few years ago.  My Uncle Carl, mother's  brother had a booklet of a history he had researched and compiled about Mom's grandfather, Calvin Perry Bingham (known as Perry).  He would have been Clara's father.  It was typed and printed up on a dot matrix printer that had faded grey type that wouldn't photo-copy well.  I asked Uncle Carl if I could borrow the history and retype it and get it printed for other family members.

I loved reading about ancestors I knew nothing about as well as my Grandma and Grandpa Young. The saving of files was a challenge as we had a couple of computer crashes, and a new pc and laptop.  The files were strewn between them all.  I finally got to the point when it was mostly done, and then I quit.  This fall when I decided I just had to get this done while Uncle Carl (who is 90 years old and weighs 90 pounds) is still alive.  Then I couldn't find the manuscript.  I searched high and low and knew or hoped I'd find it someday.  Then a few weeks before Christmas, its whereabouts came to me.  I quickly finished it up and got it to the printer. It isn't perfect.  My page numbering was off and I didn't have the whole manuscript on one computer.  Plus there were sheets that were clear enough not to need retyped.  So biting the perfectionist bullet - I did what I had to do to get it in print before Christmas and hand wrote corrections and page numbers. 

Because Grandma Young (Clara) lived until I was grown and married, I was able to know her fairly well.  This history has given me insights into her childhood and home life that I would have never known. I'll share some of them little by little as the blog goes on.