----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Rich" <joyrichny@yahoo.com> To: <LHODGE@NYCAP.RR.COM> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:26 PM Subject: PML Search Result matching "Blackledge" > ===================================================================== > A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this > search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ===================================================================== > Source: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYC] Demarest/ Blackledge Bible > > > On Ancestry Daily News at http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/7124.asp, there's an article entitled "Honoring Our Ancestors" by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak. A portion of it reads as follows: > > NGS and NEHGS > > Recently both the National Genealogical Society (NGS) and New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) have launched preservation efforts geared specifically toward Bibles. NGS recently initiated the Orphaned Bible and Family Record Rescue Project and invites people to send Bibles found "for sale, at used bookstores, on auction sites, in antique stores, or at tag, garage or yard sales." They will capture all the information for their Digital Bibles Archives Project (see National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 90, No. 4, December 2002, pages 301-3 for more information) and then attempt to return the Bible to the family of origin. If you have such a Bible to contribute, contact Dereka Smith (DSmith@ngsgenealogy.org), Director of the NGS Member Resource Center. > > NEHGS, which has been gathering New England Bibles for more than 150 years, announced The NEHGS Bible Records Recruitment Campaign last year. They request that you consider donating your family Bible (or a photocopy of its family record entries and title page) so the > information can be preserved and disseminated. For more information about this project, please contact the special collections department staff (Tim Hughes, thughes@nehgs.org or Tim Salls, tsalls@nehgs.org). > > No Excuses! > With all of these options, there is no excuse for any family Bible to disappear or slip into obscurity. If you are fortunate enough to own one of these treasures, please consider at least making a copy of the family pages and contributing them to one of these organizations. And if you are in the process of making a rescue yourself, please do the same. It's an insurance policy that will only cost a little time and some minor shipping fees--well worth the investment!" > > Joy > > Joy Rich Research > New York City Genealogy > Joy Rich, MLS > Brooklyn, NY > joyrichny@yahoo.com > Member of Association of Professional Genealogists; > Jewish Genealogical Society of New York > Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at > http://www.raogk.org > > > > DPratt137@aol.com wrote: > Hi > I have a bible that I would like to get to a family member. My uncle was a > book collector and when he died we found the Bible. We would like to find a > family member. It seems from my research these people went from NJ to NYC to > Rochester and Albany. The names in the Bible are: > Abraham Demarest > Margaret Hopper > Catherine Forman > Helena Gold Hate > Eliza Demarest > david Blackledge > Bertha Blackledge > Frank Blackledge > Blanche Hill > The only thing I would want for my aunt is to be reimbursed for shipping. If > anyone has a connection please email me. > Tracy Hogan > > Check out our web page: > DPratt137's Home Page > > > ==== NYC-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > NYC-ROOTS website - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/NYC.htm > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes