Does anyone know where the Grimland family bible is?

Question

My name is randall moore this is a stupid place to ask this but im going to try anyway. I have done tons of family genology for the grimland family, my grandfather is one of the last grimlands from granfils gap, and i would love to be able to get in contact with who has it and see if there was anyway we could set up a way that he could come see it. If anyone has any info just please let me know and if money is an issue just let me know the price. i know this is a dumb place to put it but maybe ill luck out thanks. Randall

Answer 1

I don't know, but I have some suggestions.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/grimland/

is devoted to the surname. It only has 3 posts, however.

http://boards.ancestry.com/

has 30 hits when I search all boards for "Grimland". They have a board devoted to the surname too, but some of the hits are from county boards. If the eldest daughter inherited the Bible, and passed it to her son, it will be in the hands of a non-Grimland.

You either didn't know what state and county Granfils Gap was in or didn't think it would help. Brits, Aussies and Canadians use this board too; so do people from all over the USA. I can tell you Granfils Gap isn't in Stanislaus County, California, but beyond that I can't help. Both GenForum and Ancestry have boards devoted to specific counties. You might post on them, if you know what county that gap is in and it is in the USA.

There is a thread on the Ancestry board for Bosque County Texas about a Grimland Family Bible. Here is an excerpt:

Wanda,

Clara Swenson married Jorgen Christian "Yearn" Grimland. The Grimland Bible that now belongs to a granddaughter of Yearn and Clara is NOT the one that Yearn's grandmother Liv brought to America from Norway. Yearn and Clara's Bible was published in the United States in 1884 and is in English. It was either purchased or given to them shortly after their marriage. No one in this part of the Grimland family knows of any other Bible.

Yearn's father, Jørgen Jørgensen Grimeland (Yern Grimland) was the only child born to Liv and her first husband Jørgen Gunstensen Grimeland. Jørgen Gunstensen Grimeland died in Norway before Liv and her second husband came to Bosque County. While it is possible that one of the Jørgen Jørgensen Grimeland's 17 children (Liv's grandchildren through her first marriage) could have inherited the Bible, I would guess that it would have gone to one of Liv's seven children or 36 grandchildren through her second marriage to Kittel Gunstensen Grimeland (Grimland). If so, it probably would have gone to descendents of Gunsten, Niels, Ole, Jørgen (J.K.), or Kerste since Gjeruld and Reinhart did not marry.

Bruce