> 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