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Column No. 772/November 26, 2014
Bless Them: Caring For Family Bibles Maureen A. Taylor
There is a rumor in my family that a Bible containing genealogical information exists. It was supposedly owned by an unnamed distant relative. Wish I could find it! It might answer my lingering questions about the multiple brick walls on my family tree. For those of you with a family Bible, there are two things you need to do with that precious family artifact - preserve the book and share the data. Someone who knows a lot about family Bibles is Tim Salls, Archivist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston. NEHGS is currently conducting a Bible record recruitment campaign. It’s easy to participate. Hope that distant relative of mine signs up! Salls is collecting family Bibles and the information within them for preservation and dissemination. These items will be available to researchers using the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of NEHGS and to individuals making use of their research service. Pious Preservation Preserving your family Bible doesn’t take a lot of time or money. Storage is the most important consideration. Salls suggests purchasing a custom-made box that fits the Bible comfortably (not tightly) or a standard size box a little larger than the Bible. Both are constructed of acid- and lignin-free materials with reinforced corners and are available from the Hollinger Corporation (www.hollingercorp.com). These special boxes provide a buffer from temperature and humidity changes in the environment and offer protection from pollution. Investing in a proper box will help preserve your volume for your grandchildren. Consult the storage guidelines in one of my previous articles, “Protected from the elements: Storing Heirlooms at Home,” to help you find an appropriate area in your home. Besides brittle pages, one of the most fragile parts of a book’s construction is its binding. While even opening the Bible can place stress on the binding, another consideration is the amount and type of things we store in them. Ever press a flower, stick news clippings in between the pages, or store a funeral Mass card in your Bible? You’re not alone. The time I looked at my mom’s Bible, I couldn’t believe all the things that fell out. It was a genealogical treasure trove. While the weight of a Bible offers a chance to flatten flowers from proms, weddings, and other occasions, plants stain and destroy the pages. The same is true for news clipping and other paper. If you want to continue storing a few items in your Bible, copy them onto acid- and lignin-free paper or place them in a sleeve of the same material. Just don’t place too much material in the pages. If you’re book is swollen with inserts you’ll place stress on the blinding and crack the spine. The Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/preserv/care/books.html) also warns against the use of paper clips, water soluble inks, and rubber bands because they all cause preservation problems due to deterioration. Refrain from folding over a page to mark a spot; it weakens the paper, causing it to break off in the future. Conservators at the Library of Congress also don’t recommend treating the leather covering with any type of solution.
Share the Data
Genealogical data written in the Bible’s register offers answers to many a family history mystery. Salls suggests preserving the handwritten pages rather than transcriptions of the information. Researchers need to see the variations visible in handwriting to determine who wrote the names and dates, and when. Here are some ways to save and share the data in your Bible: 1) Before you store the original Bible in the archival box, make and use a copy of the family data pages rather than using the original Bible; 2) Send copies of the original family genealogy to a historical society in a town where your family resided. Use Juliana Smith’s “The Ancestry Family Historian’s Address Book: Revised Second Edition” to locate appropriate repositories; 3) Don’t forget to contribute copies to the NEHGS project (www.newenglandancestors.org). Mail them to Tim Salls Archivist, NEHGS, 1010 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116. If you don’t want to care for the Bible, NEHGS will accept the complete Bible for their collection; 4) Think about publishing the data in a genealogical periodical. Salls told me that one of the founding reasons behind the first genealogical periodical - the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) in 1848 - was to preserve information through publication. Since then many family Bible records have appeared in the NEHGR and their other publication, “New England Ancestors.”
Damaged Goods
If your Bible sustained damage over the years, a first inclination is to fix it yourself. Before you reach for adhesive or pressure-sensitive tape to repair torn pages, Salls recommends contacting a book conservator. You can inadvertently damage the item you’re trying to preserve. Locate a conservator in your area by using the online referral service through the American Institute for the Preservation of Historic Works. (http://aic.standord.edu). Maureen A. Taylor is the author of “Scrapbooking Your Family History” (Better way 2003) and “Preserving Your Family Photographs” (Better way 2001). Send your preservation questions to her at Maureen@maureenataylor. com Ancestry Daily News, Copyright 2004, MyFamily.com.
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Genealogy Tip Of The Week
Family Bibles can be tricky to find, even assuming one was kept and still exists, and here are some places and sources to check. 1) Ask your relatives, all of them; 2) Place queries in genealogy magazines and on Internet sites. 3) Check the Internet Bible records website (www.biblerecords.com). It is perhaps one of the best sites to check.
Honor Roll
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Denim Henry, Seth High, Elijah Hitz, Brenna Holland, Alexander Iantosca, Heidee Johnson, Kyle Jorich, Alijah Kauffman, Molly Klassen, Mitchell Kleman, Aubrie Koser, Jessica Kullmann, Meghan Lehew, Christopher Leslie, Hunter Lohmann, Noell Long, Anna Malone, Emily Martz, Olivia Meyers, Cole Miller, Ashley Nguyen, Kaitlin Norman, Kylee Novosel, Delainey Olinger, Sienna Pegram, Sofia Pendolino, Kevin Perales, Phillip Peters, Joseph Provazzo, Eva Pumo, Jerilee Quinty, Brooke Renninger, Corey Renninger, Katelyn Riddle, Madison Riley, Brianna Rimmey, Joshua Rodriguez, Margaret Ross, Amanda Ruch, Emma Sellers, Olivia Sharrow, Hali Shoeman, Emily Singiser, Richard Skidmore, Kyla Smith, Benjamin Spangenberg, Trevor Spurlock, Aidan Steffe, Kameron Stepp, Micaiah Stiffler, Serena Tankersley, Hunter Thomas, Janel Thompson, Julia Thompson, Devin Tierney, Alexander Toomey, Jacob Vale, Rachel Walker, Bradley Weaver, Destiny Weiler, Carson Wendling, Ethan Westerberg, Willow Wisniewski, Rebecca Yeager, Nuvia Zaragoza and Rylee Zartman Grade 8 – Sarah Amodei, Rebecca Anderson, Katie Arnold, Riley Barrett, Garrett Bauer, Lauren Beacham, Logan Beard, John Biechler, Joshua Blessing, Summer Blouch, Emily Bosak, Logan Boshart, Alec Burger, Jared Byers, Morgan Carman, Serena Carr, Halle Colletti, Arianna Colon, Kylie Costik, Caitlin Cummings, Morgan Cummings, Lexie Dalton, Skyler
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