A. First, of course, ask your family, and not just your brothers and sisters but any collateral relatives you can think of. I found my great-grandfather’s Bible by pestering my second cousin with genealogy questions until she finally sighed and said, “Maybe I should just send you the family Bible.” I never even knew she had it! Start with people who handled the funeral for a likely Bible holder. (Funeral records can tell you this if you don’t know.)

 

Also try genealogical and historical societies, libraries and archives in places your ancestors lived. Some repositories post digitized Bible pages online, such as the State Library and State Archives of North Carolina <statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/dimp/digital/ncfamilyrecords>. Other institutions have online indexes compiled from family Bibles, such as the Connecticut State Library <www.cslib.org/bible.htm> and the Western Reserve Historical Society <www.wrhs.org/index.php/library/BibleRecordsIndex>.

 

From the August 2010 Family Tree Magazine