Busy day, I am exhausted! Tomorrow is the 4th of July and in a small town, this can be a big deal although sometimes if there is not a local parade, it can make for a dead main street as everyone goes to where the parades are. I will see what its like at my "main street museum" and if its busy or not. Today a woman brought in her old family bible. It was all in Swedish. She was told by her mother that it was brought over from Sweden when her ancestors came to America as settlers. At one time, however, she looked closely inside and noticed that it was copyrighted through a publishing company in St. Paul!! HA- she said: NOT from Sweden! Nonetheless its a really beautiful leather bible filled with her ancestral information of births, deaths, even pressed flowers from funerals.
When did bibles become repositories for family history and geneology, I wonder? Why?
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