Introduction

Dedicated to posterity, in an attempt to provide some of the family background, and to furnish as much knowledge as I could muster, so as to help in understanding some of the family tree.

• Recording started January 1975, in Paradise, California, U.S.A.
• First instalment completed July 1976, continuation of my memoirs from 1976 to 1992 
• Continuing autobiography of W.A. Gilkes from 14th March 1995 to 8th September 1996 
• Last instalment from January 25, 1997 to January 22nd, 2007.