{"id":38318,"date":"2016-07-29T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38318"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:47:32","slug":"serendipity-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38318","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

** Did you help with the FamilySearch Indexing Marathon?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

** Black Dutch; Somehow A Slur<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

** Finding Family Bibles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

** Heaven Is (for Genealogists)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In mid-July, all of us genealogists had a great opportunity to help “Pay It Forward.” FamilySearch organized an Indexing Marathon and know what? The outcome was\u00a010,447,887<\/strong> records were indexed during those three days with\u00a0116,475<\/strong> new people\/names added to the searchable database. I did one batch; how about YOU?? Stay tuned for there will be a next time and we both might-could-should-will do better.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>In GenealogyMagazine.com<\/em><\/strong>, 1997, Vol. 12, No 1, Page 17, was an explanatory article titled \u201cBlack Dutch As 19th<\/sup> Century Slur.\u201d This term has been around since the late 19th<\/sup> century and it has always meant something negative. \u201cThe guileless and unphilological,\u201d\u00a0 often classed with the \u201cignorant Irish,\u201d and \u201cthey are like a drove of bullocks..where one leads the rest follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe term originally meant all speakers of German in the broadest sense. Specifically, the Schwarze Deutsche, or Black Germans, were found along the Danube River in Austria and Germany, in the Black Forest\u2026.have dark hair and eyes, unlike the fairer people north and south of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

This last comes from the website, www.blackdutch1.webs.com<\/strong><\/a> (for real, no @).\u00a0 <\/strong>Managed by Mike Nassau, this site is a good read but has not been updated for ten years.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re all looking for that elusive family Bible; we\u2019re just sure that our family kept one. Maybe no and maybe so. I live in Eastern Washington. The last mention I have of a Potter family Bible was in Latah County just across the border in Idaho. I\u2019ve not found it yet but will (as Sir Churchill said) never give up!<\/p>\n

My question to YOU today is this: How diligently have YOU looked for that old family Bible?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know where to look? Well, www.cyndislist.com<\/a> has 155 links to websites where you can search for that treasure. There are several \u201cfamily Bible websites\u201d where one can post if they have one and can also post if they\u2019re looking for one.<\/p>\n

Another source is (believe it or not) www.eBay.com<\/a>. Doing a search today, there are 328,448 listings under the category \u201cBibles\u201d and under \u201cold family Bibles\u201d there were 142 listings. Clicking on one (for $124.99), the full description read:<\/p>\n

1829 Leather Bound Bible Old and New Testament Family Bible S5169
\nAntique Bible – Has Old and New Testament.
\nLeather Bound, however both the front and back are detached.
\nPrinted in 1829 in Philadelphia.
\nThis was a family bible, it has marriages, births and deaths listed.
\nThere are 1076 Pages.
\nThere is foxing, some dog-eared pages, and a few small rips.
\nIt measures approximately: 10 1\/2″ X 8 1\/2″ X 3″ High.
\nWonderful Piece of History!<\/p>\n

Family section of marriages, births, and deaths includes members of the Tice, White, Thorn, Palmer, Hutchinson, Gray, Allen, Mull, and Hill families. Specific names include:<\/p>\n

Leonard White, Mary Tice, Mary Thorn, Amaziah White, Lydia Anna White, Deborah White, Stacy White, Mary Ann White, Letitia White, Almer Henry Palmer, Mary Elizabeth White, Elizabeth Gray, Henry Gray, John Thorn, Martin Mull.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve had this \u201cfunny\u201d tucked into a teaching folder for years and it still brings a big smile:\u00a0 \u201cHeaven is<\/strong> where the police are British, the cooks French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is<\/strong> where the cooks are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police Germany and it is all organized by the Italians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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