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• 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.

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

• A large collection of Mississippi Bible records is Mississippi Cemetery and Bible Records, 22 Volumes. (Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Genealogical Society, 1954-1983; FHL Book 976.2 V3m; Volumes 1-13 on films 496623-26; Volumes 1-19 on fiche 6051105).

• Additional Bible records are in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Collection described in Mississippi Compiled Genealogies. An index to the Bible records in the DAR collection is E. Kay Kirkham, An Index to Some of the Bibles and Family Records of the Southern States (Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 1984; FHL Book Ref 973 D22kk v.1; Fiche 6089183.

• 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.

Mississippi 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.