200-Year Old Bible Found at the Goodwill & Returned to Family

Wow! What a story… The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 9, 2014 edition of people.com:

Goodwill employee Patricia Franco poses with the 200-year-old Bible.
Goodwill employee Patricia Franco poses with the 200-year-old Bible.

It was surrounded by computer parts when it arrived at a Denver, Colo., Goodwill, which may have been why the employees took notice of it.

According to Denver NBC affiliate KUSA, the employees discovered an inscription in the Bible (originally published in England), reading: “Wm Burbidge, Long Bucky, Northhamptonshire, born May 20th 1812, Died August 9th 1882.” It ended with “Grace Ann Burbidge, Born July 31st 1854, Died 12th May 1932.”

One way or another, the tale of the Bible made it up the chain to Goodwill’s Chief People Officer Joyce Schlose, who happens to be a genealogy enthusiast.

Read the full article.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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