Apparently, there are differences in the acceptability of bible records as fact....but, the essential one is if they were recorded as they happened, or did an individual, at a LATER date, enter the names and dates. In the first case, information recorded AS IT HAPPENED, is pretty good stuff, but anything recorded long after the fact is highly suspect...it's no different than family lore - often mis-remembered and then passed along as fact...and, we ALL have things like this in our families. So, in your case, it would seem important to know if the information recorded is in many different handwritings, or not? Many different hands is a good sign that things were written at the time they happened, not by great-great granddaughter, Effie, trying to 'full in the blanks" on a rainy afternoon. This approach was told me by a nationally respected genealogist, and it does make sense, doesn't it. Sandra ".....highly illustrated pages of family records, with the entries in the center of the page. The records pages in the two-column format appear to be the family bible of John Folkerth, first mayor of Dayton, and his wife, Peggy Huey. The other two pages appear to be from the bible of Albert Russell / Russel Huey Folkerth ( son of John and Peggy ) and his wife Ann Green." "One thing appears to be very wrong in the recorded information. John certainly did NOT come to Montgomery County in 1779, when he was 5 years old, as his father is found in Chester County, PA, from about 1770 to about 1787 as a witness to wills. It is possible that the last two digits of the date were transposed by the scribe, so that the date should have read 1797. More information is needed." -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.27/517 - Release Date: 11/3/2006