Turning Up the Volume: All Types of Lutheran Church Records in Your Genealogy

Join Historic Trappe as they host Jim Beidler, who will present his lecture about all the documents that genealogists use from church records. Genealogists with German-speaking ancestry are familiar with using church registers as vital records substitutes but too many stop with the “low-hanging fruit” of the most common records such as baptisms. New projects such as the Revolutionary City Portal and the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia’s digitization project with Ancestry.com are making accessible a wider array of church documents than ever before, adding to what researchers can find about their forebears.