digital.americanancestors.org
American Ancestors has various Family Bibles recorded here:
https://digital.americanancestors.org/digital/collection/p15869coll15
I wonder if any of you have an account with American Ancestors?
@Ancestor Treasures
@Yancey/Yancy Family Genealogy
@Surname Specific Family History Research
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Good Afternoon,
Yes I checked and I do have an American Ancestors account.
I tried logging in and it was still valid.
I will use the above link you sent to see if I can get in.
Have a good day.
Gwen Tryon Heaton
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Ancestors makes this comment:
A similar practice of recording family birth, marriage, and death dates developed with printed bibles and quickly grew in prevalence as printed bibles became affordable for more and more families. NEHGS holds a few family records recorded in Geneva Bibles (published between 1560 and 1599). Family records found in bibles published from the 1500’s through 1791 were written inside the front or back cover, on blank pages, end sheets, back of lithographs, or empty spaces in and around the printed text. The bible published by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1791 is the first Bible printed in America with dedicated sheets to record family birth, marriage, and death data. These were unornamented pages with the heading "Family record of marriage, and births of children" between the Old and New Testaments. Subsequent printers followed and improved upon this example.
I am trying to get more details about the few Geneva Bibles they reference.
can you contact the admins and ask them about this?
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