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Show Pige a THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Saturday, Jury 24, 1999 Find tthe family UMq, and see yoasr imame in print Where is the family Bible today? In 1918 it was in tion" to Margaret and Joseph Mechanicsburg, Penn. It contained Joseph Hill and Margaret Dickson's marriage date. Can you solve this case? This is new research I have to do. You can beat me to it and get your name in my column. Such a reward. We want that family Bible, because there would have other valuable information in it: births, deaths, marriages. Here are facts about the case. FIRST AN affidavit was found in Joseph's file in the National Archives. It showed: 1. The two guys who wrote the affidavit said they saw the marriage date in a family Bible. 2. These two lived in fun. HERE ARE some Paul Tripp Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Penn. 3. These two were named M.G. Mohler, age 51, and James B. Walker, age 44. 4. The affidavit was dated Feb. 14, 1918 IN A TELEPHONE call to a living Mohler family member in 1990, 1 heard: 1. The Mohlers are "no rela RV Continued from CI Continued from CI Number, and Subject. thing baby boomers. Blame the $8 trillion in inheritance that is starting to trickle down from Depression-erparents to their boomer children and is expected to keep trickling through the next decade. the 1920 census for Mechanicsburg, for James B. Walker, about age 46. See if he has a wife named Nancy, Mary or Anna. If found, write down his sons' names. Look also for an unmarried female Dickson: Nancy, Mary or Anna. Maybe you look in 1910 and 1900 cen- lived in Mechanicsburg. Whomever did live there, she had the family Bible, don't you think? sus. Try to find the 6ons' sons in the Walker family in or around Mechanicsburg. Then ask about the family Bible. Be nice when you call. 3. Otherwise, take a look on the Internet. Go to HERE'S WHAT I figure: 1. 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"We are committed to '"be it . providing our visitors with new information, so they can continor ue to break family research barriers from the comfort of their " ''b " tl living rooms." si . WHATEVER THE reason, the RV boom says much about America's changing definition of status. "It used to be the big house and the big car, those were the things that said you'd made it big. Now, the big status symbol for a lot of peonle is an RV," says RV seller Sebastian. "It's a better status symbol than a lot of things, because it's so useful. But showing off is part of the trend. Free genealogy charts and forms may be printed from www.ancestry.comdownloadfor ms.htm. These include Ancestral Chart, Research Calendar, Research Extract, Correspondence Record, Family Group Sheet and a Source Summary. Ancestry allows users to research some databases at no charge: Social Security Death Index, Ancestry World Tree (over 1 1 million names), bibliographic sources, vital records, obituaries, biographies and other free databases. Many other databases, such as U.S. census indexes and Periodical Source Index (PERSI), are available for a fee. Kip Sperry is an associate professor of family history at Brigham Young University. Mechanicsburg. All you gotta do is find it. USGEN-WEB.CO- 5 The Daily Herald Internet. Be creative. Send your findings by (below) to me. The first with an back to me with results will be the winner and will get hisher name in my column for their excellent work. Hot reward. Where is the family Bible today? It's in somebody's house, maybe in or near a www.nps.gov. 3-- sugges- 1. Check . OTHER VERSIONS of FHLC include the Internet, www.familysearch.org, compact discs, network at BYU, and microfiche. Ancestry, located in Orem, has created a Civil War Research Database on the Internet, www.ancestry.com. Ancestry is compiling and linking Civil War records from printed works and other sources-rosterpensions, and others. Many Civil War links are listed on the National Park Service Web site, ParkNet, looked there, yet. 4. When in Mechanicsburg, call the genealogy society or the library. Post a Query on the tions: Margaret had three sisters, named Tamar, Nancy and Anna. Any sister could have SPERRY R Bible. I'm gonna try, too. My gosh, this is gonna be Dickson. 2. The Mohlers do not know of James B. Walker. In a 1928 letter Margaret said, "Family records were given my sister." Ancestry.cojB adds millioris to databases ; 2 -r- -r ; I i i m |