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Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Zion church records, microfilm
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:56:59 EST

If I can make it work with my schedule, I'm going to try to get to LVa
before April 8, and compare. If this isn't the same thing, I'll copy the pages I
didn't get before.

Jane



a message dated 2/13/2006 5:10:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

on 2/13/06 3:11 PM, James Funkhouser at
wrote:

> Perhaps we should pin down these reels of microfilm and whether there are
more
> than one with Zion Church.
> My experience is that LVa film has identification numbers that lets know if
> we're looking at the same item.
>
> This is one:
>
> Library of Virginia,
> Miscellaneous Microfilm 418
> Six Church Registers, Lutheran and Reformed
> St. Peter's Augusta Co. 1787-1905
> Emmanuel's Aususta Co. 1801-1856
> Trinity Rockingham Co. 1789-1864
> Hebron Hampshire Co. Register, 1784-1885
> Zion Reformed Shenandoah Co. 1788-1853
> Zion Lutheran Shenandoah Co. 1786-1876
>
> Jim Funkhouser
>


I think we are discussing the same film.
Pasted here from the LVA website:
> Author Zion Lutheran and German Reformed Church (Shenandoah County,
Va.)
> Title Records, 1786-1876.
> Material 2 v. (134 p.).
> 1 reel.
> (Accession 29828; Misc. reel 418)
> Records, 1786-1876, consisting of two registers, one for the Reformed
> congregation and one for the Lutheran congregation, bound together. A
distinct
> title page appears for each register. The register of the Reformed
> congregation (94 pages) contains baptisms, 1788-1853, 1856, 1876, in German
> until 1820, in German and English, 1820-1828, and in English following
1828;
> and communicants and confirmations, 1789-1853, in German until 1820, in
German
> and English, 1820-1828, and in English following 1828. From 1789-1793 the
ages
> of the confirmands are entered. Also includes certain administrative
entries
> such as accounts and election records of the elders and deacons
intermittently
> from 1832 to 1852. The register for the Lutheran congregation (163 pages)
> contains baptisms, 1786-1876, in German until 1820, in German and English,
> 1820-1828, and in English following 1828; and communicants and
confirmations,
> 1791-1876, in German for the most part through 1827, although English
appears
> from 1821.

This is the film cited in volume 4 of "Faith in the Valley." From this film,
I have the Lutheran records copied and have compared entries with Wust
beginning in 1800 and going through 1830.

Johannes Ludwig baptism is on p. 14 of Wust's Zion Lutheran, vol. 2, and on
microfilm page number 49 of Lutheran records in Lutheran section of the
microfilm. I do not have the Reformed records. As I recall--it's been
several years, the Reformed section was inverted in the old church book. I
did not capture the page numbers from the church book when I copied. All
1825-1826 baptisms on my copied pages are on microfilm pages numbers
64-65. Left page top is John Coffman & wife Rebecca--daughter Regina born
August 20, 1824. Bottom of 2nd page is Johannes Lutz & Lidia, son Johannes
5 September 1826.

My page numbers are consecutive. Could Levi Helsley's birth be in on same
film but with the Reformed Church records? Perhaps it was missed as it was
in English script and not transcribed by Klaus Wust's German entries; and
also not noted as being English as it was in the German section and thus not
recorded by Warrick Burruss who transcribed the English records only.
Sandra



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