For those of you who do not receive the Rootsweb review: (A family historian's dream) >>>>>>>>>>>>> Family Bible Finds Its Way Home By Anita Clayton in Port Republic, New Jersey In June I received an e-mail from Jack DAVIS of Pennington, New Jersey, that made me hyperventilate with excitement. He said he had found a December 11, 2000 posting of mine at RootsWeb. The message was one I had put on the NJMonmou-L (Monmouth County, New Jersey) mailing list and mentioned my 3-great-grandmother Mary Ann CONK (born 1803) and her husband Hezekiah AYRES (born 1797), who lived near Crosswicks, near the border of Burlington and Mercer counties, in New Jersey and also Mary Ann's parents John CONK and Sarah RICHMOND, who lived in Howell, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He wrote, "Over the weekend I purchased a small family Bible from the 1860s in a box lot at an auction near Crosswicks. It is Mary Ann (CONK) AYRES' Bible, and lists her children (with birth dates), and also mentions that she is the daughter of John and Sarah CONK." He had done a Google search on AYRES and CONK and found my old message in archives for the list. All the details fit. "If you're interested in having it, I'd be happy to mail it to you in the next week or two." Well, of course I was interested. He continued, "I don't want anything for it -- I paid very little and it would be fun to reunite it with a family member, especially since I'm also interested in genealogy." A couple of weeks later I went to Trenton and met him on the front steps of the New Jersey State Archives, which is near his job. He handed me the small worn, but well-preserved Bible that had been given to my 3- great-grandmother more than 150 years ago. Isn't that exciting? Thanks Jack and RootsWeb! >>>>>>>>> REPRINTS. Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, provided: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 4 August 2004, Vol. 7, No. 31.