Massachusetts Bible Records

United States   Massachusetts    Bible Records

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and Corbin collections contain Bible records. These are described in Massachusetts Genealogy. The DAR collection of Bible records is partially indexed. See:

Kirkham, E. Kay. An Index to Some of the Bibles and Family Records of the United States,Volume II. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 1984. and

Another source for Bible records in Massachusetts is:

Lewis, Ella May Swint. Bible Records for Massachusetts Families. Springfield, Massachusetts: Lewis, 1960. and

Additional Bible records have been published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register and other genealogical periodicals (see Massachusetts Periodicals).

Copies, or abstracts of old family Bibles that are no longer known to exist, may survive in Revolutionary War Pension application files at NARA, Washington, D.C., which are available online at three commercial websites: Ancestry, Footnote, and Heritage Quest Online.