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Subject: Old Oakland County Families
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:57:25 EDT

The book should also be located in the Michigan State Libary in Lansing as I
sent for a copy of a page which was missing from a photocopied section that I
had made some years ago. It is not available from them through Interlibrary
Loan as I tried that route. It is, as another listed said, available through
Salt Lake.

However, I would suggest that anyone who takes information from this source
do some independent research to verify facts as I know it has mistakes in two
surnamed families that are mine: Axford and Perry. In the Perry genealogy
which is presented, I discovered that the information came from a family member
of mine who thought that the progenitor of the family was a John Perry. This
is incorrect. The first progenitor was a man named Adam Perry. The John which
is attributed in this source is really a grandson of Adam and the John which
is cited never served in the Revolution. Instead, he served in the War of
1812. My grandmother's aunts are the ones who provided the information to
Lillian when she was preparing her book and they made a mistake because they wanted
to join the DAR and back then, they didn't need to prove with documentation
the information they had.

In the Axford line, I had a problem following some of the descendants by
comparing it to other facts that I found and other sources that followed the same
family. Therefore, I feel there are mistakes in this source.

Some lines may be true blue and be very accurate, but would suggest that you
don't depend on this source as beeing truly gospel and factual. Use it as a
reference tool and go from there to make sure the information is currect. As
with all human endeavors, mistakes are made and Lillian Avery probably didn't
take the time to check, recheck, and verify all the data that was sent to her
when she prepared this volume. So, please, don't take the information as being
gospel until you check it all out.

Christie Trapp

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