cd: church records: adams, berks and lancaster counties, pennsylvania, 1729-1881
Church records such as those included here are among the best sources for information on births, marriages, and deaths for the period of time before widespread civil registration of vital statistics. This Family Archive contains information on approximately 180,000 individuals mentioned in abstracts of baptisms, births, marriages, and deaths from the registers of more than fifty local Pennsylvania churches. The information was extracted from microfilm records of transcriptions of the original records. Please note: The data included in this Family Archive was previously available on CD-ROMs included in the Ultimate Family Tree Data Library. The information from the following CDs was compiled and indexed to make this new Family Archive: Adams County Church Records, 1745-1825 (CD #040003); Berks County Church Records, 1752-1825 (CD #04004); and Lancaster County Church Records, 1729-1825 (CD #040011).
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