I'm sorry - I missed the whole point of this list. It's to post Bibles we have in our possession that may belong to someone out there, right? Not my information to look for one, right? Got it! Carol in Okla

My Grandfather's sister is in possession of the Canady/Bishop Bible (Emanuel Co, Georgia). I beleive it survived the Civil War and it is in very bad shape. However, because of the war and some unmarked graves, etc, it is the only written record of my ggrandparents parents and families. It is the only record that we have of my gggrandparents birthdates. They have been checked against the census records as fairly accurate (and list a few children that were born and died in between censuses). I admit that oftentimes they were not totally accurate, but sometimes one has to take what they can get. As soon as I can find my original transcript, (done in 1983) I will post it to the list. Jeannine R. Garrett

I am new to this list and am interested in this. I don't have a problem with someone querying to see if someone out there has a family Bible they need, or posting the info in an extant Bible in their possession (the more info the merrier, I say) but I do have a problem with a general genealogical query. I subscribe to many lists and if one wants to do a general inquiry, there are other posts for that. Enough said. Don't want to have any more bickering. I have in my possession a family Bible from a family that lived at 109 East Evers, Bowling Green, Ohio. I also have various announcements, letters, and a couple of photos. However, we still have not unpacked from our move and they are in a box somewhere in here. I would be more than happy to return these to the family once I can find them. We lived in that house about 28 years ago and my mother found them in the attic. Packrat she is, she carted them around until 1996, when she ran across them (after 15 moves, two divorces, and a couple of floods) and gave them to me, as I was very attached to the house before we moved. The only thing she kept was a traveling trunk, and I think that these things were in it. We probably sold the trunk years ago. At anyrate, I will attempt to find it and post the info to the web in hopes that someone will need it. Jeannine R. Garrett Harrisonfm@aol.com wrote: > I think they only give the family surname and if the name is one of your > family's surnames, you will contact them personally and give other names, and > perhaps dates, of family members you feel would be in the bible. They will > verify that information and if it is a match, they will make the necessary > arrangements to get the bible to you. Otherwise anyone including bible > collectors could say that it was their family bible and have quite a > collection of old bibles. The idea is to return the bible to the actual > family. > Just a thought. > Carol Jean

unsubscribe -----Original Message----- From: Family_Bibles-D-request@rootsweb.com <Family_Bibles-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: Family_Bibles-D@rootsweb.com <Family_Bibles-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 1:09 PM Subject: Family_Bibles-D Digest V99 #74

I agree with leaving the back and forth stuff off it has been going on all afternoon. It takes 1 second to push delete if we don't want to read other things posted here. My first and last word on the subject. Thanks Debbie in Illinois

I have been a subscriber, although fairly quiet, for the past year. This is the most activity I have seen. It is time to go forward. If you are looking for a Bible, then give that information. If you have one, then give that information. Be adults and quit bickering. Thanks in advance, Peggy Hornick Iowa pegpowel@netins.net

In a message dated 99-08-20 13:02:55 EDT, eileen@tir.com writes: << The Bible has supposedly been in the ENGLISH family since 1704 (although I did discover a date of 1702 in the records). >> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I thought I'd pass it along just in case someone doesn't and may find it useful. A Bible may contain a date in a family record that is much earlier than the publication date of the Bible. In fact, sometimes the births/deaths/marriages of ancestors of the original owner are recorded, which makes it a real find. In my family there is at least one family Bible that had several items of incorrect family information entered, long after the dates of the events themselves. Only after finding other records, created during the lives of the people involved, was I able to discover that I had been barking up the wrong tree by depending on the Bible record to be accurate. Charles Walker

I am new on this list and thought I would enjoy it but all I have seen is complaining because some have put in names that they are looking for. Who knows, someone else out their might have a bible with those names in them. This is still for genealogy anyway or is it. Sounds to me like it is a grip list. Lets all get back to the purpose of these lists which I think is find our ancestors and help others to find their ancestors too. Now that I have said my piece I am going to get back to the business of this list. How about the rest of you and hope no one else gets off this or other lists. I have a bible that is German [written in German] It was supposed to have been destroyed during the WWll but wasn't. It has the name C. M. FEIGANSPAN and ALTENHEIN on the inside cover. Marilyn in Tennessee

This sounds like the sensible thing to do. Also I forgot on my prior message that I am quite a few lists, some with the name of the list in the subject. On this list I have to bring up the reply to all screen sometimes to see what list it is. I personally would like to see an abbreviation such as FB in the subject so I know what list it is from. Thanks Verdena Veelle Mulino, OR -----Original Message----- From: Harrisonfm@aol.com <Harrisonfm@aol.com> To: Family_Bibles-L@rootsweb.com <Family_Bibles-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 7:15 AM Subject: Just a thought >I think they only give the family surname and if the name is one of your >family's surnames, you will contact them personally and give other names, and >perhaps dates, of family members you feel would be in the bible. They will >verify that information and if it is a match, they will make the necessary >arrangements to get the bible to you. Otherwise anyone including bible >collectors could say that it was their family bible and have quite a >collection of old bibles. The idea is to return the bible to the actual >family. >Just a thought. >Carol Jean >

This is the information straight from the Rootsweb page. A mailing list for the entry ONLY of information on any and all family bibles. Postings regarding a family bible should include, if known, present owner and address (needed as proof to make the bible valid); person submitting the information and address; date purchased, place, and price; plus locations of family discussed in the bible, if known, and all vital information given in the bible. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Is there is a list manager for this list? If so tell us what can and can't be posted. Anyone else trying to set the rules in my opinion is just meddling and when they start meddling in my business I'll tell them right quick to kiss my ass. That's my 2 cents

Am looking for the Harrison Family Bible. Harrison, John Harris, ______ Harrison, Landon Pearson, Nancy Adeline Harrison, George Thomas Allison, Nancy Ann Francis Harrison, James Walter Black, Lonie Mae Email me at harrisonfm@aol.com if you have seen. Thank you

I have my grandparents Family Bible: Stephen Paton Smith & Florence Sloan Also: my aunt's Family Bible: Fanny Bell Hunter & Samuel R. Montgomery ( most of which her siblings) I will be happy to share if any names sound familiar. Fannanell

Subj: Round and round Date: 08/20/1999 10:57:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: holmes@snowhill.com (holmes) Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:holmes@snowhill.com">holmes@snowhill.com</A> To: Family_Bibles-L@rootsweb.com I am getting more email about what should go on Family Bibles than all my email put together. Let's just put bibles and leave all this back and forth stuff off period. Thanks. Amen to that

2nd set of pages about half way through the Bible Page 1 of Set 2 At top of blank page: Joel English's Bible Nov. 8, 1835. Page 2 of Set 2 --------daughter of Joel and Catharine E. English was born Oct. 3rd 1857. Mortimer Delos son of Joel and Catharine E. English was born October 19, 1858. Wesley Callon English son of Joel and Catharine E. English was born May 25, 1861. Page 3 of Set 2 Joel English Nov. 8th 1835 Deaths Amos English the son of Moses & Mary English died April 25, 1813. Mary English the wife of Amos died Jan. 15, 1804 Joel English the son of Amos and Mary English died June 10, 1835. (These three entries were in the same handwriting. The next three are a different handwriting) Beulah A. English daughter of Joel and Abagail English died October 31 1847. -------English daughter of Joel and Catharine E. English died October 27, 1857. [Note: a tombstone in the English Cemetery in Harrison Valley, Potter Co., PA reads, "Mary E. English, 3 Oct 1857 - 27 Oct 1857"] Wesley C. son of Joel and Catharine E. English died July 31, 1865. 3rd set of pages about 3/4 of way through Bible: Page 1 of Set 3 Moses English the son of Amos English and Mary English was born the 21 day of June in the Year of Our Lord 1765. James English the son of Amos English and Mary English was born the 1 day of May in the Year of Our Lord 1768. Grace English the daughter of Amos English and Mary English was born the 20 day of December in the Year of Our Lord 1769. Sarah English (writing too faded to read and appears to have been written over with data on Amos). Amos English the son of Amos English and Mary English was born the 14 day of February in the Year of Our Lord 1772. Job English the son of Amos English and Mary English was born the 28 day of May in the Year of Our Lord 1774. Joel English the son of Amos English and Mary English was born the 5 day of ---- in the Year of Our Lord 1779. Joel English the 2nd the son of Amos English and Mary English was born the fourteenth day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1781. Page 2 of Set 3 Joseph English his Book 1702 Moses English 1745 Sarah English the daughter of Moses English and Mary English was born October 16, 1755 Page 3 of Set 3 Amos English the son of Moses English and Mary English was born the ninteenth day of May about two o'clock in the afternoon in the Year of Our Lord 1741. Mary English the daughter of Moses English and Mary English was born July the fourteenth day in the Year of Our Lord 1745. (there is writing below these, but water damage has obliterated it) Page at back of Bible: Mary English the wife of Moses English died the second day of March in the Year of Our Lord 1774. Joel English the son of Amos English and Mary English died the twenty first day of February in the Year of Our Lord 1780. Moses English died the eighteenth day of December in the Year of Our Lord 1780. Mary English the wife of Amos English died the 15 of January in the Year of Our Lord 1804. Amos English died the 25 of April in the Year of Our Lord 1813. Mary English daughter of Joel English and Abigail departed this life January 30, 1808 William English the son of Joel and Abigail English departed this life September 27, 1812. In the lower right hand corner of next page of Bible: Joel English the son of Amos and Mary English died June the 10 in the Year of Our Lord 1835 in the 50 4 year of his age. -------------------------------- I have done extensive research on my English family and can supply additional information on these people. If you want to know more about some of them, email me privately. Eileen Roddy Fenton, Michigan

"Every mailing list really has two addresses: the list name, where posts should be sent, and the list name followed by -request, where commands to the listserver software should be sent. For example, posts to ROOTS-L should go to ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com while "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests should go to ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com." In the case of this group the proper address to "unsubscribe" is Family_Bibles-L-request@rootsweb.com (Family_Bibles-D-request@rootsweb.com if you are receiving the digest mode). So if you want to unsubscribe use the right address and you'll get results. You can also go to Rootsweb (http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/) where you can find the above quote, more info and not even have to enter the address yourself to send subscribe/unsubscribe messages. By the way, only the command itself (unsubscribe) should be in the body of the message with no sig or other stuff. W. Butler Stringfield Columbia, MO wstringf@mail.coin.missouri.edu

I have cut and pasted this from the rootsweb help page. May I suggest that complaints be sent to the listowner per the directions listed below instead of sending offensive messages such as the one that Neal Caskey at ostrich@bellsouth.net sent to the mail list where all subscribers, including those of us who were trying to stay out of the petty bickering, have to read it. ********* HOW DO I CONTACT A LISTOWNER? To contact a listowner of any RootsWeb list, send an email to: LISTNAME-request@rootsweb.com And put RE: Listowner in the subject line. This tells the computer to forward it to the listowner. Substitute the list's full name in for LISTNAME. For example roots-l would be: ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com ************* Basically this means to send an email to: Family_Bibles-L-request@rootsweb.com (or for those on digest Family_Bibles-D-request@rootsweb.com) and in the SUBJECT line (not the body of the message) write: RE: Listowner then in the body of the email write your message to the listowner. Hope this helps, Barbara (who is NOT the listowner so please do not send complaints to me)

Hi Everybody, I hava a question, I have been on the list lurking a long time, and just had a thought, is it permissible to copy and paste some of the messages sent to this list re: Bibles and re-post them to another list where I think that there might be someone who is interested in it. How do I do this. What is the rule on it. Thanks, Becky

I have been on this list for about a year. This is the first time I"ve seen someone object to people asking about the whereabouts of family bibles. My assumption about the purpose of the list was: 1. A place to list the contents of family bibles you have 2. A place to "query" whether anyone might have run across or own a family bible you are looking for. 3. A place to let people know where there are family bibles listed, either contents or for sale. I never thought it was such a hidebound list, that one or two people, not listowners, could dictate policy. Considering the fact that this list lies dormant for months at a time, I really can't see why anyone would object to a few e-mails occasionally. I'll unsubscribe also. Any family information I have is already in the Archives.

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