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Subject: Re: [APG] Origin of Practice of Keeping Family Records in Bibles
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:43:04 EDT
In a message dated 9/19/2007 12:24:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
The first Catholic bible printed in
the U.S., by Matthew Carey in Philaldelphia in 1790, had family record
pages,
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And this is precisely the Catholic Bible to which I previously referred. I
had been told the publication date was 1750 but Donn has also examined this
same Bible and has corrected me in that the publication date was 1790. We both
can attest to the fact it has pages set aside for family records.
Joan
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