Shauna has chosen family bibles for this week's topic. She tells us that "family bibles can be useful resources for family history and they can connect us through the generations. If you are lucky enough to have one in the family records, why not think about why and how it has come to be in the family and are there plans in place to ensure that it continues to be handed down the generations still to come."
For all my family I have only ever seen information copied from one bible, which was given to me by a relative on my father's side of my family. She photocopied the pages for me several years ago, and they were a great resource to have. Her grandmother had spent some time carefully noting on its blank pages not just family births, marriages and deaths but also significant family events such as major travels, accidents and illnesses, and children leaving home to find work elsewhere. Sadly she has since passed away and I have no idea what became of the old bible - I hope someone is cherishing it.
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