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Subject: [APG] Origin of Practice of Keeping Family Records in Bibles
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:10:19 -0500


Here's a post to a history list to which I also belong. Can anybody answer
this question? Regards, Carolyn
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Subject RE: QUERY: Genealogies Recorded in Family Bibles

> Subject QUERY: Genealogies Recorded in Family Bibles>>>> I am currently
> looking into the practice of keeping family genealogies in> Bibles. Is
> anyone aware of secondary literature on this practice during the>
> seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in the Southern
> colonies?> I would be interested in any information on who generally wrote
> these> records, where in the Bible they were recorded, and the
> significance of this> practice.>> Thanks in advance,>> Megan Stubbendeck>
> University of Virginia>> John Saillant> Editor, H-OIEAHC> OIEAHC

Ms. Stubbendeck,
While I have no specific work to cite, I do know that the people with the
savviest expertise in this area are our colleagues, the genealogists. You
might try some of their associations -- such as National Genealogical
Society (U.S.) http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/
or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Someone must have written
on this.

best wishes,

Ken
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Kenneth W. Burchell
Department of History
University of Idaho


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