This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MASTERSON, DECKER, VALENTINE, KUTZMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hgR.2ACIB/1848 Message Board Post: I bought a very old German Bible and catechism book at a sale in the hopes of finding the family it belongs to. Inscribed inside is "Hazel MASTERSON". A loose card has "This Bible belonged to Mary DECKER born in 1827, great grandmother of Earl, Jean Ann and Ruth Ellen MASTERSON". Another loose sheet has "George Washington VALENTINE was born March the 16 in the year of our Lord 1859 and was babtised [sic] April the twenty first. Sarah Elizabeth born November the 21st 1863. Baptised December 10th, 1863 by Rev KUTZMAN(n?)" There are additonal inscriptions in old German that I cannot read. No date on the Bible but the catechism book has a publication date of 1840 in Philadelphia. The same name ??? Decker ????1847 is in both books. I would love to find the family of these items.