Share a Historical Lead
Know of a historic Bible, manuscript, map, archive, photograph, family record, or related collection? Tell Aurora what you found and what is known about its history.
Start a Material Inquiry →Get Involved
Help us find what should not be forgotten.
Preservation often begins with a person who notices that something matters: an old Bible in a family collection, records in a church cabinet, a map without context, a photograph with a story, or a question no one has followed yet.
Aurora Biblical Archives welcomes historical leads, research questions, partnership inquiries, and conversations with people and organizations who share an interest in preserving biblical and historical heritage.
Ways to Connect
Sometimes the most important contribution is knowing where to look.
You do not need to be an archivist or historian to help preserve something meaningful. A lead, a family story, specialized knowledge, an institutional connection, or a research question can become the beginning of useful documentation.
Research & Knowledge
Researchers, students, historians, archaeologists, archivists, librarians, genealogists, GIS specialists, language scholars, and others may have knowledge that helps illuminate a source or question.
Send a Research Question →Churches & Organizations
Churches, museums, libraries, archives, historical organizations, and other custodians may hold materials with important documentary histories or preservation needs.
Explore a Partnership →Preservation Awareness
Helping someone recognize that an old or fragile item should be documented before it is cleaned, repaired, separated, discarded, or altered can protect evidence that cannot be replaced.
Read Preservation Guidance →Find a Forgotten Bible
Aurora's active discovery project seeks historic Bibles and related materials whose provenance, condition, inscriptions, family histories, or other context may not yet be documented.
Explore the Project →Skills & Future Opportunities
As Aurora's capacity and projects grow, there may be opportunities to contribute skills, volunteer effort, research assistance, digitization work, educational collaboration, and other forms of support.
Contact Aurora →For Families & Custodians
You do not have to give something away to help preserve its story.
A privately held Bible, manuscript, record, photograph, map, or family collection can remain with its owner while its history and context are documented.
If you are unsure whether something is relevant, start by telling us what you know. Ownership, custody, provenance, inscriptions, family stories, photographs, and related records can all help establish context.
For fragile or older material, avoid cleaning or attempting repairs before reviewing preservation guidance.
Organizations & Partnerships
Preservation works better through connection.
Aurora is interested in hearing from organizations whose collections, expertise, communities, or work intersect with biblical and historical preservation, documentation, research, digitization, mapping, or education.
Churches & Religious Organizations
Historic Bibles, registers, photographs, correspondence, publications, and other records may carry both institutional and community history worth documenting and protecting.
Libraries, Archives & Museums
Shared research interests, collection knowledge, referrals, educational work, and preservation awareness can create useful connections across institutions.
Researchers & Educators
Historical, biblical, archaeological, archival, geographic, linguistic, and interdisciplinary perspectives can help sources be understood in richer context.
Historical & Community Groups
Local knowledge, family histories, documentary leads, place-based research, and community memory can preserve context that formal records do not always capture.
Responsible Growth
Building participation around the work that exists.
Aurora is developing its collections, research, documentation, preservation resources, digital infrastructure, and relationships deliberately so that new opportunities can grow from a clear mission and responsible practices.
Want to contribute in another way?
If you have a historical lead, research question, relevant skill, institutional connection, educational idea, or another proposal that fits Aurora's mission, we would like to hear about it.
As specific volunteer, project, or other support opportunities become available, Aurora can describe them here with clear expectations rather than promising programs before they are ready.
Contact Aurora Biblical ArchivesPreserve What Matters
A source can survive. Its story can, too.
Finding, documenting, and protecting historical material often begins with one person deciding that what they found is worth remembering.