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Archive for May 13th, 2008
Family Bibles, The Genesis of Most Genealogy Research
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008The first place many people begin looking for their family’s history is in a Bible, and I’m not talking about Adam and Eve or all those begets. If we’re lucky, one of our ancestors started a tradition of writing their family’s marriage, birth and death records in their Bible. If we’re even luckier, we know where that Bible is today. If we’re Lotto-winner lucky, the information is correct. That’s right. Just because it’s in the Bible doesn’t mean it’s true. If the records were recorded as they happened, then they’re usually right. But if someone entered the who, what and when in hindsight, then Heaven help the person who relies on those names and dates to be facts. I did that and wasted nine months researching the wrong names. How can you know if the information in your Family Bible is accurate? Verify it.