As the most secure refuge in most family homes was a Holy Bible, it is there that many families recorded births, marriages and deaths. A collection of these with persons having a Centre County connection can be found in the vertical files of the Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library and Historical Museum in Bellefonte. Amongst the names included are: Allison, Ayres, Bible, Butler, Etters, Green, Harris, Harshbarger, Heverly, Hoffman, Holter, Houser, Kauffman, Klinger, McMeen, Mahaffey, Martin, Murry, Patton, Rute, Snook, Steele and Thompson. The library welcomes additional copies of Bible Records.
This website is also looking for transcribed Bible records of persons with a Centre County connection. To submit Bible records online, you may use our Centre County message boards which allow you to share Birth, Marriage, and Death records you have located in family Bibles or other sources. Please enter your information carefully, and if you make a mistake, contact the web site coordinator immediately so that your entry can be edited.
Prior to June 2001, a separate Bible Records Message Board for Centre County was maintained at RootsWeb.com, but in the middle of June 2001, a change (wrought by its merger with Ancestry.com) resulted in a merger of all RootsWeb message boards so most browsers can only find these mixed in with other queries on one merged board. If you wish to look at the specific set of Bible Records actually posted, go to that only Centre County Board and click on advanced search. Click the "Centre Board" button, then look in the middle of the page for an instruction that says, "Message Classification," and use the pull-down menu until you reach one for "Bible." It will reveal mentions of these surnames amongst the Bible records postings: Barnhart, Borland, Breon, Craig, Diven, Eckley, Glenn, Gunsallus, Hall, Harsbargar, Harshberger, Hockenberry, Jukes, Long, McCalmont, McCloskey, McCormick, McPherson, Neff, Paget, Sliker, Thomas, Twitmyer and Wenrick.
We encourage the continued posting of Bible records, but browsers are advised (1)to do this in the future by using the message boards for Births, Marriages, and Deaths at PA-Roots.com, and (2)to read the Advisory about the changes at RootsWeb.