Bibles Archives - Megan Smolenyak https://megansmolenyak.com/tag/bibles/ genealogical adventurer & storyteller Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:51:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 Genealogy Roundup, September 2 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-sept-2-2026/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-sept-2-2026/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:44:42 +0000 https://megansmolenyak.com/?p=164957 In this week’s roundup, a book every genealogist will love, the surprising journey of a Civil War Bible, and more!

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]]> Custodians of Wonder by Eliot Stein – I just know this book will appeal to my fellow genealogists. Treat yourself!

The Strange Travels of a Civil War Bible – Last year I donated a bible to the American Civil War Museum and I’m delighted that it was featured in a cover article for their magazine, Ironclad. You can read pages 3-11 (lots of photos!) to discover its surprising journey. Am so happy to have found an ideal home for this bible!

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]]> https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-sept-2-2026/feed/ 0 April 2014 Seton Shields Genealogy Grant Awarded https://megansmolenyak.com/april-2014-seton-shields-genealogy-grant-awarded/ https://megansmolenyak.com/april-2014-seton-shields-genealogy-grant-awarded/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:40:29 +0000 http://www.silverleafdesign.biz/clients/megan/?p=28677 The Historical Society of Kent County receives the donation of a building that will be the future Bordley History Center.

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]]> In 2011, the Historical Society of Kent County, one of Maryland’s earliest counties, was delighted to receive the donation of a building that will be the future Bordley History Center. The History Center will have both a research library, with computers and databases accessible to the public, as well as a state of the art archival room that will keep the society’s collection of negatives, family Bibles, portraits, oral histories, family photo albums and legal documents preserved. Liberty Bliss, a work-study student at the society, requested a grant, explaining that, “under the current director Karen Emerson, we are working very hard to preserve and document the African-American and Hispanic communities that have been in Kent County forever but underrepresented. We are going to begin an oral history project with members of the Hispanic community in the fall, and I am currently working on a proposal to begin a slave genealogy project. In addition to this much needed research center, we are doing our best to fill this crucial need in the historical and genealogical communities. We have the heart, we have the hands, we just don’t have the funds.” This month’s grant is intended to help with the funds part of the equation.

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