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Offline snooki

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Family bibles
« on: Saturday 19 May 12 21:20 BST (UK) »
Hi folks

just wondering if there's any way to find out if my ancestors kept a family bible.

snooki

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Re: Family bibles
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 19 May 12 21:28 BST (UK) »
Many, if not most family Bibles have disintegrated, been lost or simply thrown out. The only thing you can do is ask your older relatives if they remember one and, if so, what happened to it.

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Re: Family bibles
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 20 May 12 12:07 BST (UK) »
Hi, first you need to ask the widest possible number of your family to see if anyone has one.  Also family bibles sometimes appear on Ebay for sale.  Its worth having a look to see if one associated with your family crops up for auction.
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Davies/Calvert/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Yorkshire, Bowes
Fitzsimmons/Cheshire, Birkenhead/Lancashire, Liverpool/Ireland
Lewis/Cheshire,Spurstow, Bunbury, Little Budworth, Helsby/Birkenhead
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Re: Family bibles
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 20 May 12 13:48 BST (UK) »
There are a number of sites offering to take in transcripts of the info in family Bibles - might be worth some web searching.
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: Family bibles
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 20 May 12 17:22 BST (UK) »
Thanks for all your replies :)
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