Tracking Vol VI #3 pg 24 - August 1980
PASTOR WEISER TALKS - from Pal-Am convention in Spring 1979 - Columbus, Ohio
- About early Germans in Penn. & Md. - he said in the early days a chair often meant a wagon!
- Marriages - banns published were enough - no license needed - vast majority of marriages not recorded
- Burials - rare records of them, pastor came, but felt no obligation to record them, the obituary was often read and the text of the sermon was important.
- Palatines from Alsace, yes, but rarely did they come from Lorraine!
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