Hello Cousins,

This is my first Perry cousins Newsletter !

I don't know if I will ever find time to do another one, but for now this is a start.

First the reason I was finally prompted to do this newsletter:

I am proud to announce that I have registered a domain name with InterNIC for the Perry/Hupp Family History web site. Our new domain name is Perry-Family.org. Please update any bookmarks to reflect the new address http://Perry-Family.org. This also means that my e-mail address will change to Jack@Perry-Family.org. The old address and e-mail will still work for now but may not in the future. The best part about having a registered domain name is that as long as I keep paying the bills it will be ours forever. No matter if I change ISP's both the web site address and my e-mail will remain the same. The replaces the old home.earthlink.net/~jrperry address.

I can hardly believe that the web site has been on-line for over two years now. I have met so many wonderful cousins on-line. The web site has had over 9,000 hits (visits) since going on-line. Over 6,500 of those have been different individuals visiting. Together we have been able to discover so much more of our Perry family history than any of us would have been able to do alone. So much has been accomplished in these two years! My family file now exceeds over 14,000 individuals.

Second, about a year I met Mr. Paul Dyer and his brother Curt because of a contact I made from the web site. Paul lives in Louisville and Curt in Wayne county. Paul and his brother have been wonderful and helped with our Perry family ever so much. Paul has authored a number of family history books on Wayne county families, the Maynard, Dyer, and Queen family surnames. Paul has been working on me to publish our Perry History ! I told him that I already had done it on the web. Well the family files have grown so large that I no longer can place all the details on the web site. To make a long story short I have decided to publish our Perry history at some point and have started loading the files with all our current descendants. Paul has given me permission to use all of his Perry history and photos he has collected during his research. The information that Paul has collected will make our book one of the most complete published. This has taken vast amounts of my time entering all of the current descendants and much of my research on the early Perry ancestors has taken a back seat for a while.

However another of our cousins with roots to Wayne county, Mr. Zane Perry, has been very actively working our early Perry lines. Both Zane and I have believed that our Perry line is from the English merchant Perry's that settled in the Isle of Wright in the 1600s. Zane lives in that area has been actively researching those early NC Perry's. He has found a lot of excellent records that don't all fit together yet but I am sure will in the future. I will tell you more about Zane's work in another newsletter. I hope there will be more and that you enjoyed receiving it. For now Zane recommended an excellent research book on the early Perry lines, It is the “Perry of London : A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753 by Jacob M. Price” It is available from amazon.com. The book had been on back order for three weeks, but I just received notice that my copy has shipped. Zane made this recommendation to me "Buy it. No maybes, just buy it. This is $30 WELL spent. This book contains the genealogy of the Perry family from the late 1400s down to the time of Phillip Perry of Whitemarsh, and includes information about our family."

If your interested in purchasing it all you need to do is click the link shown below, if it shows up in blue. If not then just copy it and paste it in your browser. If you decide to purchase the book please use the links I provided. I signed up The Perry/Hupp Family History as an amazon.com associate. If you purchase the book using the link below or from the Perry-Family.org web site we will receive credit for the sale.

'Perry of London : A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier'

If above link doesn't seem to work go to Perry-Family.org and click on `Genealogy books'. I have listed a few other genealogy books you may be interested in.

Well this went a lot longer than I expected, I hope you took the time to read this far. In the future I hope to send to you or post to Perry-Family.org a long list of Wayne county Perry families that belong to ours. I can't positively identify, I hope you will help me fit these Perry families in the proper place in the family tree.

Jack Perry
Louisville, KY

The Perry/Hupp Family History
http://Perry-Family.org

mailto:Jack@Perry-Family.org

PS: If you have sent me an e-mail recently and I haven't replied I am sorry. All is not lost, I am just very far behind in my replies, I get about a 50 e-mail a day. I will get caught up on them eventually.