1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. : 13 cm.).
Notes
Title and version from disc surface.
"CD #196."
Summary
Contains ca. 476,000 individuals who lived in or who were born in Southeastern Pennsylvania before 1800. The records, found in 213 church, meeting and pastoral records were compiled by John T. Humphrey and published in the 13 volume set "Pennsylvania births".
Preface--Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Sadsbury Township, birth records from the 1730s--Little Britain Monthly Meeting, Little Britain Township, birth records from the 1770s--St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, birth records from the 1750s--Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, East Cocalico, baptismal register begun in 1733--Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Elizabeth Township, also called Old Warwick Lutheran Church, baptismal register begun in 1742--Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1730--Moravian Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1743--First Reformed Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1736,--Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, birth records from the 1730s--St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Lancaster, birth records from the 1770s--Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim, baptismal register begun in 1771--Muddy Creek Reformed Church, East Cocalico Township, birth records from the 1770s--Bangor Protestant Episcopal church, Caernarfon Township, birth records from the 1770s--Bergstrasse Lutheran Church, Ephrata Township, birth records from the 1740s--Rev. John Waldschmidt, personal register begun in 1751--Rev. John Cuthbertson, personal register, begun in 1751--Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing, personal register begun in 1779--Christ Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, birth records from the 1770s--St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Strasburg, birth records from the 1750s--Swamp Reformed Church, West Cocalico Township, baptismal register opened in 1788--Zion Reformed Church, Elizabeth Township, also known as Reyer's Reformed Church, birth records from the 1760s--Blasser Reformed Church, West Donegal Township, birth records from the 1750s--White Oak Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Penn Township, baptismal register opened in 1754--Zeltenreich/Seltenreich Reformed Church, baptismal records from the 1740s--Maytown Reformed Church, East Donegal Township, birth records from the 1760s--St. Paul's Reformed Church, Manheim, baptismal register begun in 1771--Pequea Reformed Church, Strasburg Township, birth records from the 1740s--Maytown Lutheran Church, East Donegal Township, birth records from the 1760s--Cocalico Reformed Church, Ephrata, birth records from the 1740s--Rev. John Casper Stoever, Jr., personal register begun in 1729--Moravian Church, Lititz, baptismal register opened in 1744..
translated and edited by Debra D. Smith and Frederick S. Weiser.
ISBN
1558560092 (vol. 1)
1558562141 (vol. 2)
1558562834 (vol. 3)
Place of Publication
Apollo, PA
Publisher
Closson Press,
Date of Publication
1988-
Physical Description
v. <1-5 > : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
v. 1. 1730-1767 -- v. 2. 1767-1782 -- v. 3. 1782-1796 -- v. 4. 1797-1810 - v. 5 burial records
Summary
Volume 5 includes a long exposition detailing the following: 1) Location of cemeteries used by Trinity Members. This section describes and provides histories of 30 different cemeteries in south central Pennsylvania; 2) Miscellaneous notes on burials of Trinity's pastors; 3) Notable persons at Trinity; 4) Inscriptons of gravestones at the Trinity graveyard. Photos of gravestones in the Memorial Wall are also displayed; 5) Trinity gravestones at Landis Valley. Some of the old graveyard stones are stored at Landis Valley Museum. A listing along with some photographs are reproduced here; 6) There are several sections that attempt to accurately catalog all the graves at the old graveyard.
Vol. 2 translated by Charles T. Zahn; v. <5-6 > translated by William J. Hinke; v. <9-10 > translated and edited by C.T. Zahn and Frederick S. Weiser.
Vol. 4-6 <8-13 > have imprint: Westminster, Md. : Historical Society of Carroll County.
Includes indexes.
LCHS has v. 1-4, 7-10, 12-13.
Contents
v. 1. Records of Christ Reformed Church also known as the German Reformed Church ... Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, 1770-1840 -- v. 2. Records of Zion Lutheran Church, Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, 1781-1826 -- v. 3. Baptismal records of the Monocacy Lutheran Congregation and its successor, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1742-1779 -- v. 4. Baptismal records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1780-1811 -- v. 5. Records of the Evangelical Reformed Church (a congregation of the United Church of Christ), Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1746-1789 -- v. 6. Records of the Evangelical Reformed Church (a congregation of the United Church of Christ), Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1790-1828 -- v. 7. Saint Mary's Church, Silver Run, Carroll County --v. 8. Saint Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church "Winter's Church," near New Windsor, Carroll County, 1788-1884, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Taneytown, Carroll County, 1788-1841, Emanuel Church "Baust's Church" near Tyrone, Carroll County, Lutheran and Reformed records, 1792-1849 -- v. 12. Zion Evangelical and REformed Church, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland
v. 8. St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, "Winter's Church" near New Windsor, Carroll County, 1784-1884 ; Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Taneytown, Carroll County, 1788-1841 ; Emanuel Church "Baust's Church" near Tyrone, Carroll County, Lutheran and Reformed records, 1792-1849 -- v. 9. The Pipe Creek Church, Benjamin's, St. Benjamin's, or, Kreider's Church near Westminster, Carroll County, reformed records, 1766-1835, Lutheran records, 1767-1837 ; Jerusalem, Bachman's, or, Bauer's Church, Bachman Valley, Carroll County, Lutheran records, 1799-1881 -- v. 10. Zion Church, "The German Church", Manchester, Carroll County, Maryland--today, Trinity United Church of Christ records, 1760-1836, Immanuel Lutheran Church records, 1760-1853 -- v. 11. Apple's Church near Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland, Lutheran and Reformed records, 1773-1849 ; Creagerstown, Frederick County, Maryland, Lutheran and Reformed records, 1789-1863 -- v. 12. Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, 1771-1849 --v. 13. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, 1770-1819.
