I subscribe to the Archives Mailing List and this looked appropriate for posting to ours. Maybe one of our members can help her. >Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:25:58 -0500 >From: june lloyd <[email protected]> >Subject: Pennsylvania German Birth & Baptismal Certificates > > I am 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: [email protected] > Photocopies would be greatly appreciated. Send to: > June Lloyd, Librarian/Archivist > Historical Society of York County > 250 E. Market St. > York, PA 17403 > > Thanks. ==== KUNKEL Mailing List ==== To send a message to everyone, send it directly to: [email protected], or reply to an individual message and note "send to all recipients" or whatever your system has for this option.