Delaware Bible Records

Online Records

 * The Family Bible Index - over 300,000 entries
 * The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has an index of over 40,000 digitized family Bible records and each day more records are digitized and added to the Index.
 * Index to Early Bible Records provides a free index to over 17,000 online and offline pre-1830 Bible records.
 * Kirkham, E. Kay. An Index to Some of the Bibles and Family Records of the United States. Volume 2. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 1984. and
 * The Delaware Public Archives
 * The Historical Society of Delaware

Delaware Bible Records
A Bible was often given by relatives to a bride as a wedding gift, where she recorded information about her immediate family and close relatives. Relationships were seldom stated but were often implied. Names of parents, children, and their spouses, including maiden names, were frequently given along with dates of birth, marriage, and death. Sometimes the age of a person was given at the time of death. Many families kept Bible records from the 1700s (and sometimes earlier) to more recent times, although few have survived. Some have been donated to local libraries or societies.

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains Bible records from Delaware. The collection is: Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Delaware. Old Bible Records. 13 Volumes. Newark, Delaware: n.p., 1944-73. and This collection contains records of persons living about 1650-1970, to which the Historical Society of Delaware has an every-name index.

Start with the free Index to Early Bible Records (pre-1830; 17,000 entries).

A partial index to the DAR collection of Bible records is:

Kirkham, E. Kay. An Index to Some of the Bibles and Family Records of the United States. Volume 2. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 1984. and

The Delaware Public Archives (see the "Archives and Libraries" section for the address) is actively collecting and indexing Bible records. You can write for more information about the current status of this collection. The Historical Society of Delaware (see the "Archives and Libraries" section for the address) also collects Bible records.

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, Fold3, and Heritage Quest Online.