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Old family Bibles contained pages with space to record births, marriages, and deaths. |
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Marriages recorded in a family Bible can be as brief as a one-line entry or long and informative like the one in the example. |
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If the Bible was published after any of the marriage dates recorded for family members, it's obvious that the entries were not made when the event took place. The entries may be only as accurate as the memory of the person who recorded them. If the entries were made later, make sure to mention it when passing the information on to others! |
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Most marriage entries in a Bible don't mention where the marriage took place. You can check census schedules, land and tax records, and other records to determine where the couple might have lived when the marriage took place. Then write for a copy of their marriage record to corroborate the information in the Bible entry. |
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Ask relatives in each branch of your family if they know who might have inherited the old family Bible. |
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When you locate and photocopy the register
entries in a family Bible take the original book
and the photocopies to a Notary Public and have
them certify that the photocopies are true copies
of the original pages.
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