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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Rebecca Steele on Thursday 20 April 06 13:23 BST (UK)
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I was really shocked when I saw this for sale!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-bible-and-family-tree_W0QQitemZ8409749810QQcategoryZ29364QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Its sad isnt it! Lets hope it goes to a really good home.
Linda.
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I find it very sad.
We all know how much hard work must have gone into that family tree!
I just hope it ends up with its family!
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It would be lovely to buy it and reunite it with its rightful owners. If there are any of course!
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Oh! How could anyone do that? Then again, from what some Rootschatters have said, some people couldn't give a fig. I find it really sad. I'd love to have my Nan's family Bible.
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Some people >:( I presume that it's not their own family bible, they are not giving much away in the description.
How very sad. :'( :'(
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At least now they have put a photo up and after much prompting they have said the family name is Barge.
Still makes me sad though.
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I would keep it, even if it wasn't my family. Or at least try and reunite it with its owners. The worst way, I think I'd donate it to a local museum or something.
Kim
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I find that absolutely disgusting and shows what a commercial world we live in with often no values.
Geoff
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I would keep it, even if it wasn't my family. Or at least try and reunite it with its owners. The worst way, I think I'd donate it to a local museum or something.
Kim
Or even give it to the local record office for safe keeping.
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I notice they haven't had any bids. With the postage costs it adds upto nearly £50.00 but I would pay a lot more than that to find some a piece of my families history.
Well, we all pay more than that all the time - subs to ancestry and internet time etc.
Again how very sad :'(
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It is very sad.
When I was a child, we used to have a lot of family Bibles from my father's family knocking around. There were ones for my father & his brothers listing all of the ships that they served in, with dates etc...Plus a large Rees family bible which went back many generations.
Sadly, my mother moved several times, & they got discarded during her moves:-(
How I wish that I had known that they were unwanted...& how I wish that I could remember the names of some of the ships that my father served in:-(((
Romilly.
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I am trying to put a message out on GR about the bible but can't work out how to do it. I have put messages about my own family but I can't seem to post about someone elses :-\
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Very sad to do this.
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Look at this ::) ::) ::) ::)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,121530.0.html
Annie :)
IGNORE ME !! :P :P :P :P :P :P
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Romily, I know what you mean. My Wheeldon family were catholic, I haven't come across any other catholic Wheeldons, and they had a huge family bible but where it is now - who knows? I think it went over to the USA in the 1940s with my Mums second cousin - of course the cousin was adopted and her adopted Mum married twice so we are not sure of the cousins surname. I presume that she married - so not a clue where to look!
Families - don't they just drive you bonkers?????????
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Aaaah Liverpool Annie - I would have been on that one like a shot if I had a family connection. Well, it takes all sorts and at least he/she was made aware of the sale.
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Maybe the word "canny" comes to mind ....
I wouldn't want anybody to know I was thinking of buying it either !! ;) ;) ;) ;)
The price would start going up !!
Annie :)
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You can post a message on GR. There is a History tab you can post on.
Type in the surname and you get four options the first is History .The message can be edited or deleted.
Hope you find it
Patricia ;)
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Hi,
If you go to the general antique auctions in your area you'll probably find lots of old photo's and bibles etc up for sale.
My father is a an antique dealer , he used to own an antique shop( fine china etc - not family tree stuff) .He's retired now, but still goes to the auctions to buy stuff to do the occasional antique fair. It's sort of more of a hobby with him now.
There used to be always lots of this type of thing in them - boxes and boxes of very old photo's and family bibles which the boxes /lots would go only for just a couple of pence as nobody really wanted them . They came mostly from house clearances.
When I went back home for a holiday recently, my father showed me an old (1800's) family bible with names and the birth dates of each family member in it . He had just bought it from one of the country auctions which he goes to. He bought it for just a couple of pounds (I can't remember exactly what he paid for it but I think it worked out to be only 1 or 2 pounds at the most) - I think it came out of a box of bits and pieces he bought which the whole Lot he won at $10( pounds) maybe .
It also had an old photo of the Lady who's family bible it was , it was stuck in-between the pages of the family bible with her name written on it - what a find that would be to the family of this lady . He purchased it because the surname was the same as ours and thought she may be connected with us somehow .It's not our family though, at least I have found no evidence it is.
Anyway, try the local auctions in your area of interest on a regular basis , it's amazing the stuff like old photo's and family bibles that gets chucked out in house clearances when someone dies . You never know one day you may come across something relevant to your family .The items go for practically nothing at these general auctions, as most people who go to these general antique auctions are going there for things like antique china and antique furniture and not family bibles, photos and other such family papers which is of no interest to many of them. It's where a lot of the dealers buy their stuff from
:)
P.S. There is another one ebay too with a handwritten family tree - surname is Toffee and William J Edwards
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VICTORIAN-Family-Bible-140-year-old-approx-C-1840S_W0QQitemZ6623910135QQcategoryZ269QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem