Family Bible Records in FS Memories

Dennis J Yancey

FamilySearch Memories is a great place to look for Family Bible records (among other similar items)
Using the FIND option on Memories you can find some very interesting items and limit such items by surname.

However on most searches you will really need to use multiple search terms
and when you do so - you need to ensure you combine such terms with a capital "AND" (all letters in upper case only)

here is a sample search for Family Bibles for surname Yancey
(i.e. YANCEY AND BIBLE)

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/find?searchTerms=BIBLE%20AND%20YANCEY&searchType=text-search&searchCategories=IMAGE%2CPDF%2CTEXT%2CAUDIO%2CALBUM&page=1&maxRecords=50&firstRecord=0&_=1736212718989

(you will need to select, copy and paste the entire above 4 lines of url code to the address of your browser and then hit enter to view the results.)

You can execute the query, change the surname to your surname of choice and then re-execute the query to find items of your interest and focus.

How many of you have Family Bibles (with family registers) copies of which have yet to be uploaded to FS Memories. I hughly recommend uploads of that and similar items.

AmberML1

Thanks for sharing this information!

Dennis J Yancey

some other searches that result in records similar to Family Bibles include

[SURNAME] AND FAMILY AND REGISTER

[SURNAME] AND FAMILY AND RECORD

[SURNAME] AND BIBLE AND RECORD

[SURNAME] AND FAMILY AND BIRTHS

the use of AND between compound terms is very important
or also the use of multiple terms inside quotes

"SMITH FAMILY BIBLE"

Mark McKenzie_1

And…. Full Text Search has processed images which I've found to also include Bible records. Another good option to explore

Dennis J Yancey

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/584010#Comment_584010

can you point us at precisely what you are referring to???

I was referring to the Memories FIND option
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/find

Mark McKenzie_1

@Dennis J Yancey Full Text Search is an 'Experiment' offered thru FamilySearch Labs

https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/

You'll need to 'Try It' then you can start using the tool. It searches thru Computer generated transcripts of various images [right now pushing 300 million] in the FamilySearch collection some of which include Bible records. Not a whole lot, but they're in there!

In general, this is a major/valuable addition when it comes to finding non-indexed records. You owe it to yourself to give it a go!

Dennis J Yancey

Thanks - yes - thats for historical records - but NOT FS Memories.
and it doesn't appear to have any keyword searching capabilities.

Mark McKenzie_1

I misconstrued your query as to you looking for Bible Records, not so much how Memories Search does/does not work right…

Dennis J Yancey

Yes - looking for bible records, family registers, genealogical samplers, fraktur documents and so much more - using the FIND feature of FS Memories - and how to use compound search terms to find them.