From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Jul 29 22:33:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6U4XNjb031766; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:33:23 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6U4XLFH025537 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:33:21 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6U1seFI009410 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:54:40 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6U1se8h009409 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:54:40 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6TNoMFI009155 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:50:22 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6U2Sq3a004784 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:28:52 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Sat Jul 29 20:28:52 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6U2Sqjb004773 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:28:52 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao05.cox.net (centrmmtao05.cox.net [70.168.83.79]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6U2SmWG004867 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:28:49 -0600 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by centrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060730022844.VCF8328.centrmmtao05.cox.net@DH433L51> for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:28:44 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:28:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <44CBD311.30643.29E1A4B9@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <65d66f240607291858j33e991b1xed4ff8c0fa3c1dbb@mail.gmail.com> References: <54a.3168724c.31fd3b51@aol.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Man finds 188 yr old Bible in Virginia Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I suspect many old Bibles are discarded by people who have no interest in genealogy and couldn't care less about anyone wanting the information. My husband's great aunt died and her husband discarded all the family memorabilia, including a large old Bible, and lit a fire to it. My mother-in-law happened to be there shortly after that and saw what he'd done and pulled the Bible out of the trash can before it had been totally destroyed. Inside was a great grandmother's letter of dismissal from an Iowa church congregation that was being dissolved. She and her husband and children later moved to Kansas. My husband has the Bible - the handwritten church letter was signed by the church clerk and was dated in 1865. Perhaps the only remaining record of the church's existence. Probably not a great treasure to some people, but certainly of interest to others. The least the man could have done was to have offered it to family members or a local library. He and his wife had no children, but many relatives. juanita > It had family information in the Bible. He has found a descendent of > the family who has been looking for the Bible for years. He has copied > the information and sent it to family. > Why can't we get the public in general to realize, if they don't want > to save records of the past, at least donate them to libraries, > genealogy groups or sell them on ebay. Any thing to prevent this type > lost from happening. > Marilyne