A Godly Inheritance - a three year project completed in 1988, to honour my beloved grandmother Elisabeth (Friesen) Kroeker

Description Cover Differences Pricing Shipping Description Up for Auction This is a handmade, hard-cover, (4 lb) Family History book. It is covered in padded cotton fabric with tiny prints, reminincent of the dresses my maternal grandmother wore, for she was an Old Colony Mennonite woman.

The first 200 pages are my beloved Gr'ma Kroeker's life story as told from translations of her personal diaries for the most part. The first chapter about her ancestors (as much as I had at that time), and the last chapters about how I was her caregiver as I took over the journalling habit. Most of the narrative tells Gr'ma's life story as I took it from her diaries. I've included some of her favourite expressions, and clippings she saved.

There is a black and white photo section of six pages, then...

The last 100 pages are genealogy tree drawings and charts, showing her father's side (Friesens), and her mother's side (Neudorfs), her husband's side (Kroekers), and her parents' descendants in greater detail. Closing with a map of the Saskatchewan villages in her country world, and a P.S. with a late-breaking news of more data about her grandfather Friesen's parents and siblings.

You can learn more about our family tree names and dates by checking these drawings, scanned and on my genealogy site.

AGodlyInheritance.com
An abridged first few chapters online: A Godly Inheritance Preface, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2.
And from the earliest generations sketched out briefly on these chart pages; Some Family lines & Trees


Here are some larger, close-up photos of the book;

Only 7 Copies left!

Cover Differences
I used three bolts of small print cottons for the covers. So the cover of the book you recieve may not be precisely like the one in the photos. One is tiny pink rosebuds on a darker background, another is tiny blue/yellow flowers on a medium blue background, and the one in these photos is two shades of pink on medium blue.

Pricing
Originally, when I finished binding this big batch of 300 books, I sold them for $30 each. Mostly I wanted to be paid for the many back-breaking hours of work I'd put into them. Each weighs no less than four pounds, and contains over 300 sheets of paper that I handled in all stages of printing, collating, binding, etc.

However, as the memory of that work fades, and I realize that I have much better ways of producing my genealogy books, I've been willing to let them go for $15 each. Then, just enough to cover the postage.

I tell Dad that if I should hit fame for my novels, these books will become collector items. Then they'll fetch a pretty penny! Only, now they are getting in my way, and so instead of hoarding them, I'm ready to let them go. As long as I get my postage covered. That can range from $10 to $15 Canadian, depending on how far it has to travel by post. - So, shall we look at your postal code and strike a deal?!

Shipping
My first, most economical thought is to send the book by parcel post. It's most convenient for me. If you would rather I send it by UPS, or even Greyhound bus, I can do that too. Since there are only a few copies of A Godly Inheritance left, I'm willing to cooperate and work out a shipping plan to our mutual satisfaction.

Hey, I'll even give you a discount, if you come pick it up at my door!

To learn more about the book, and to read the first few chapters online (albeit abridged and more condensed), please visit my genealogy site, http://AGodlyInheritance.com

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