Book I: Births, baptisms, marriages, 1729-1743 - Book 2: Baptisms, marriages, Funerals, 1747-1767 - Book 3: Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1768-1797 - Book 4, Part I: Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1798-1841 - Book 4, Part 2: Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1841-1850 - Book 5, Part 1: Baptisms, 1850-1921 - Book 5, Part 2: Marriages, burials, 1850-1921.
Includes index.
Rineer's"Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 194 #1.
Photocopies of original records in possession of the congregation.
Births and baptisms at Columbia 1809-1869, confirmations 1814-1856, burial records1821-1870 and births and baptisms at Conestoga Centre 1815-1869, burial records 1815-1869, confirmations 1816-1863, communicants 1816-1868.
Note: These records were copied in March 1973 by Melvern R. Evans, Jr., from the church recod book, which is kept in the church office vault. In copying, no attempt was made to correct any mis-spellings from the original book, which contains the following: Death records 1750-1931, Confirmations, [and] dismissals. From title page.
Note: These records were copied in March 1973 by Melvern R. Evans, Jr., from the church recod book, which is kept in the church office vault. In copying, no attempt was made to correct any mis-spellings from the original book, which contains the following: Births and baptisms from 1736 thru 1931 (pages 3 to 261) Marriages from 1742-to 1932 (pages M1l to M-186) From title page.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 195 #2.
Trauungen aus dem Kirchenbuch der Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster, Pennsylvanien, 1748-1767 : mit zahlreichen deutschen Herkunftsangaben = Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1748-1767
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County " page 195 #2.
Includes records for Reformed churches in Waynesboro 1832-1840 and 1847-1851; Lancaster 1840-1847; Shippensburg 1851-1857; Middletown Md. 1857-1863; Wilkes Barre 1864-1866; Frederick Md. 1866-1869; Shippensburg 1869-1875; and New burg 1875-?.
Listed alphabetically by groom with bride's index.
"Records were transcribed from Wm. Egle's Notes and Queries (Annual volume,1897)
"Note: There were no marriage records for St. James Church available for: April 19, 1773 to July 17, 1773, September 6, 1773 to October 25, 1773, September 5, 1774 to November 15, 1774, December 27, 1774 to March 16, 1775, August 30, 1778 to January 5, 1784, From 1785 on Records were 'spotty.'"
Library also has photocopy of the original church records.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 197 #4.
