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The Family Bible Preservation Project shares with you the following:
INDEX to extant Family Bible records across the world.
The index is located here:
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/family_bible_index.htm
Also the Surname Count file:
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/Family_Bibles_starting_with_letter/A/-SURNAME_LIST.TXT
The surname count file above will give you some idea of the massive nature of this Family Bible Index. It will cover not only American Family Bibles - but bibles all the way from Australia to South Africa to Denmark to Nova Scotia and more.
Here is a genealogical challenge for all of you:
Can any of you find a surname - for which a Family Bible is known to exist for such surname - but for which the surname is not included in this SURNAME list above??
Note that some of you will quickly notice that Spanish/Portuguese surnames are rare in this listing. That is not because I didn't search for such cases, or that they read the bible any less, or that they were less religious than others - but it is a manifestation of the fact that Family Bibles are most common among the Protestants - and among Spanish and Portuguese countries - in most cases Catholicism has been quite dominant in their history - wherein the "Family Bible" was a pretty rare occurrence.
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Comments
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Dennis, this is amazing. Thank you for all your work on this. I see names that have only one shown and I know there are more, so I need to find my copies and get them to you. And then I saw 156 on one of my names!
Anita
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Two additional surnames for Family Bibles: Nitschke and Meissner
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do you know of any family bibles for these names?
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Yes, I have Carl Ludwig Nitschke (Nitzschke) 1813-1888 Bible. I also have pages
from family bible of parents of Erastus (Deaf Smith) Smith( Battle of San Jacinto
fame).
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can you share copies of such bibles?
or share links to existing copies on line?
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any Meissner bibles?
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Yes, but do not know how to upload. Grandson probably can, but will have to snail mail copies to him first. Liz Hicks
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No Meissner bible, just genealogy of Carl W. Meissner of Zullichau, Brandenburg,
Germany emigrated to Galveston, TX 1852, died Austin County, TX.
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Hello Dennis,
This is a wonderful project! Do you have an estimated date when you think the names will be uploaded?
Thank you.
Robert Seal
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within the next month
but if you cant wait - just send me a surname to lookup.
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Thank you, Dennis, for the offer. I can wait until next month. Please let us know when the the upload is complete.
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note that a few surnames are already posted and all surnames for X Y Z
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This is a very impressive list. Thank you for doing this.
In response to your challenge, I did not see the names Champagnole, Davignon / D'Avignon, Deyette/Diette, Gamache, Hogeland, Lilienkamp, Mathey, Stoupantz, Taiclet, Tourangeau, or Verret. As you have probably guessed, they are mainly French / French Canadian names. I don't have or know of any Family Bibles, unfortunately.
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there is no point in adding a name for which there is no bible
If you can help me locate a bible for those names I will be happy to add the entries.
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Agree. I will try and locate some.
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Wow! Thanks for doing this!
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What a wonderful blessing for families... yes please let me know when these will be ready to view .. extreme thanks ..
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