The Family Bible: Part 3
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt There are six Bibles remaining in the collection of my family Bibles. However, at the end of this...
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt There are six Bibles remaining in the collection of my family Bibles. However, at the end of this...
In addition to the Andrew Snyder Bible detailed in part 1 of The Family Bible, I have in my possession eleven other Bibles of which brief descriptions were given previously. All of these are...
Family Bibles are interesting pieces of memorabilia. They often have other pieces of memorabilia stuck between their pages, such as dried plants, braided hair, noted verses, and funeral cards. My mother’s Bible always lay...
The further we go back in time, the more difficult it is to tell the story of our Hagenbuch family. Precious little information remains from early 1700s when our ancestor, Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715),...
What’s in a Bible? I mean this literally. If you open up a Bible, what might you find inside? In June my father, Mark, and I were going through several boxes of family ephemera....
Quite often, we Christians seek an answer to a problem. We randomly open the Bible to any page and find scripture that the Holy Spirit selects for us as guidance. For this article, I...
Recently, my father, Mark, and I received a message from Patrick Donmoyer notifying us of a German Bible from 1798 that was for sale on eBay. Patrick is the director of the Pennsylvania German...
An often heard quote states: “Find a job you enjoy doing and you won’t have to work a day in your life.” Most people’s first jobs are out of necessity and aren’t what they...
It’s not always easy to come up with an article for our genealogical site. Believe me, Andrew and I have a lot of ideas, but we also want fresh and exciting features to mix...
As I prepared to write more about the friends of Andreas Hagenbuch, I thought, “If only Facebook was available in the 1700s and Andreas and his family were on it. We would know who...