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2026-02-18 All About Family Bibles: A family bible is scripture with extra pages to record family events. According to this MyHeritage blog post, family bibles were used in the United States to record vital events before national civil registration was used. The article also points to the Digital Public Library of America and the Internet Archive as sources of thousands of digitized family bibles. You can learn more about family bibles in Goal B1 of the United States page.
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