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The Pennsylvania Births Series is a comprehensive index to the extant birth and baptismal records found in southeastern Pennsylvania's early church registers. It was designed to facilitate easy access to many early, mostly unpublished church records for one of this country's oldest and most important states. It gives genealogists an ability to find and locate records of birth for some of America's oldest families with relative ease.

Each volume is organized alphabetically by surname and then by the name of the infant. Each entry provides the researcher with the name of the infant or person baptized, the date of birth or baptism, the names of the father, and the mother. A number in the extreme right column of each entry identifies the church record where that birth information can be found as numbered in the preface of each volume. If the mother's maiden surname is given in the church record that information is included as well.

Any genealogist searching for individual births or for family names can find them in short order. A family historian searching for Shaw ancestors, for example, will find within minutes records of birth for members of that family in: Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Delaware Counties.

The birth records in this series are comprehensive; that is, this series is complete to the extent records are available for research. It contains all of the known records for each county regardless of religious denomination or ethnic origin. The series includes information found in previously published sources and data abstracted from original records. It incorporates information from registers that were not translated prior to the publication of this series. This series has birth records from all Friends Meetings in the counties covered and several of those meetings, have birth records from the late-seventeenth century.

The Series offers family historians, with Pennsylvania ancestry, significant savings in both time and money. Any genealogist searching for the children of Michael and Catharine Klein who were born in Lancaster County, for example, would spend an exorbitant amount of time trying to find information on that family. Thirty-one church records were searched to find information for the Lancaster County volumes. The cost of renting thirty-one rolls of microfilm is substantially more than the purchase price of the Lancaster County books.

The geographic boundaries used to define the scope of each volume are the jurisdictional boundaries of each county as they exist today. Several counties in this series were at one time part of another county.

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