> Subject: Fw: Pennsylvania German Birth & Baptismal Certificates
> Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 9:42 PM

 As a graduate student in American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg,  I am
 gathering data for my  Master's project concerning Pennsylvania German
 Fraktur, specifically Taufscheine (Baptismal Certificates) done for
 children born in York and Adams Counties, PA.  Most of the either
 hand-drawn or printed, pre-lithographed certificates were done in German,
 but some are in English.  They were popular from before 1770 to around
 1870, I am interested in the infilled information with names, dates,
 pastors, and sponsors as well as in the artists, printers and scriveners.

 If anyone has any York/Adams County examples in their collections, or
knows
 of any elsewhere, please e-mail me: [log in to unmask]

 Photocopies would be greatly appreciated.  Send to:
 June Lloyd, Librarian/Archivist
 Historical Society of York County
 250 E. Market St.
York, PA 17403

  Thanks.

> June Lloyd