> 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
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