Hi Art,      Your problem is that many of these churches didn't have records that early or they didn't exist.  Here is a listing of the German Reformed Churches from the webpage of Lancasterhistory.org.      The number in brackets are the years the church had records.  Some of these records were published in Lancaster County Church Records of the 18th Century by Wright.       I think the Conestoga German Reformed Church started about 1817 and only ended recently.  I'd expect early records to be at First Reformed in Lancaster since the minister came from First Reformed to service that church after it was founded.                                                                            Jim German Reformed [Now United Church of Christ] Salem [Heller’s], Upper Leacock Twp., 1725 (1824 to 1876) Peace Church [ Muddy Creek], East Cocalico Twp., 1731/2 (See Bethany, Ephrata Borough.) Bethany [Cocalico], Ephrata Borough., 1730 (1766 to 1861) First Reformed, Lancaster City, 1732 (1736 to 1931) St. Stephen’s [Zeltenreich’s], New Holland, Earl Twp., 1732 (1746-1800, 1866-1906) Zion [Reiher’s or Reyer’s), Brickerville, Elizabeth Twp., c. 1732-1848 disbanded (See Bethany, Ephrata Borough.) Christ [Blaser’s], Elizabethtown, 1743 (1750 to 1835) Zion [Pequea, Black Horse], New Providence, Strasburg Twp., 1750 (1740 to 1800) Rapho, Rapho Twp., c. 1747-1876, disbanded (1808 to 1835) Swamp Church, West Cocalico Twp., 1749 (See Bethany, Ephrata Borough) Jerusalem (White Oak), Penryn, Penn Twp., 1752 (1754 to 1789) Maytown, East Donegal Twp., 1765 (1765 to 1811 and 1840 to 1873) St. Paul’s, Manheim Borough., 1769 (1771 to 1853) Trinity (formerly Salem), Columbia Borough, 1804 (1808 to 1835) Salem, Reamstown [Zoar], East Cocalico Twp., 1815 (1818 to 1882) Zion, Marietta Borough., 1817 (1808 to 1835) St. John’s [Center], East Earl Twp., 1819 Salem, Kissel Hill, Warwick Twp., 1823-1910 disbanded ________________________________ From: Art Miller <amiller44@bellsouth.net> To: "ZZ-Lancaster Co., Pa." <Palancas-l@rootsweb.com>; "ZZ-Frederick Co., Md." <MDFREDER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 10:20:19 PM Subject: [PALANCAS] Early German Reformed Churches in Lancaster Co. I have been reviewing early German settlers in Frederick Co., Md. and find several were of German Reformed faith and reportedly came thru Lancaster Co., Pa.  The names that I find include: George Ley/Lay/Loy, Franz Weiss, Peter Hoffman, Frederick Unseldt, Heinrich Roth/Rhodes, Henry Neff, Stephan Ransburg, Conrad Kemp, Jacob Storm/Sturm and Georg Hutzel.  The German Reformed churches mentioned were Muddy Creek, Conestoga, Lancaster, Warwick, but I have found no church records listing early members I.e. 1720/1730's.  My main thrust is trying to determine if Abraham Miller, Jacob Miller and Isaac Miller of early Frederick Co. were also from one of these Lancaster Co. German Reformed churches.  Any clues on how to find these names in early Lancaster Co. would be appreciated. Art Miller, Louisville ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message