The Richmond Family Bible I bought on eBay recently arrived in the mail. It was exactly as the seller had described it. The eBay description had read: Cover is well worn and torn. A few pages are loose, most still intact. Pages have spots throughout. This is a family Bible which belonged to the... (Read More)
It’s been years since I looked at eBay to find family heirlooms and artifacts. In the past, I have made some spectacular family history finds. For example, I once found an old family letter written by Jonathan Huse (1767-1853) to his mother, and an 1813 sampler created by his daughter Sarah Araline Huse (1807-1825)... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak writes about using family Bible records and a folk art called “frakturs” to document early family history... (Read More)
Thomas Jay Kemp writes about the kindness of a stranger who found and returned his cousin Ransom Ferdinand Smith’s long-lost Bible and journals... (Read More)
An article about the Phillips family in 1891 digging up a Family Bible that had been buried in the grave of a niece 25 years earlier to claim a fortune... (Read More)
Family Bibles have been treasured by families for generations, but finding them today can be difficult. It was common for families to have a family Bible – a large bound book that was prominently displayed in the family parlor – “…a large octavo volume, with a more or less ornate binding, with blank... (Read More)
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