Corinne and Russell Earnest have studied fraktur for over thirty years, and have recorded the genealogy infill from more than 25,000 fraktur. They have published nineteen books about genealogy and fraktur, including German-American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition, Three Volumes (1991–1993), The Genealogist's Guide to Fraktur: For Genealogists Researching German-American Families, with Beverly Repass Hoch (1991), and Fraktur: Folk Art and Family (1999).

“Corinne and Russell Earnest, experts on fraktur, have produced a lovely book filled with color and black and white examples of family registers, both hand-drawn and printed.”—Jack Brubaker Lancaster New Era

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1.Perspectives on Family Registers 2.Pennsylvania-German Family Registers and the Fraktur Tradition 3.Comparisons of Pennsylvania-German and New England Family Registers 4.Texts on Pennsylvania-German Family Registers 5.Forms of Pennsylvania-German Family Registers Preprinted Broadside-type Family Registers with Printed Infill Freehand Broadside-type Family Registers Preprinted Broadside-type Family Registers with Added, Handwritten Infill Preprinted Family Registers Bound into Bibles Freehand Family Registers Written on Blank Pages of Bibles Freehand Family Registers in Booklet Form Epilogue Appendixes Notes Selected References Index

Corinne and Russell Earnest have studied fraktur for over thirty years, and have recorded the genealogy infill from more than 25,000 fraktur. They have published nineteen books about genealogy and fraktur, including German-American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition, Three Volumes (1991–1993), The Genealogist's Guide to Fraktur: For Genealogists Researching German-American Families, with Beverly Repass Hoch (1991), and Fraktur: Folk Art and Family (1999).

“Corinne and Russell Earnest, experts on fraktur, have produced a lovely book filled with color and black and white examples of family registers, both hand-drawn and printed.”—Jack Brubaker Lancaster New Era

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1.Perspectives on Family Registers 2.Pennsylvania-German Family Registers and the Fraktur Tradition 3.Comparisons of Pennsylvania-German and New England Family Registers 4.Texts on Pennsylvania-German Family Registers 5.Forms of Pennsylvania-German Family Registers Preprinted Broadside-type Family Registers with Printed Infill Freehand Broadside-type Family Registers Preprinted Broadside-type Family Registers with Added, Handwritten Infill Preprinted Family Registers Bound into Bibles Freehand Family Registers Written on Blank Pages of Bibles Freehand Family Registers in Booklet Form Epilogue Appendixes Notes Selected References Index

Corinne and Russell Earnest have studied fraktur for over thirty years, and have recorded the genealogy infill from more than 25,000 fraktur. They have published nineteen books about genealogy and fraktur, including German-American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition, Three Volumes (1991–1993), The Genealogist's Guide to Fraktur: For Genealogists Researching German-American Families, with Beverly Repass Hoch (1991), and Fraktur: Folk Art and Family (1999).

“Corinne and Russell Earnest, experts on fraktur, have produced a lovely book filled with color and black and white examples of family registers, both hand-drawn and printed.”—Jack Brubaker Lancaster New Era

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1.Perspectives on Family Registers 2.Pennsylvania-German Family Registers and the Fraktur Tradition 3.Comparisons of Pennsylvania-German and New England Family Registers 4.Texts on Pennsylvania-German Family Registers 5.Forms of Pennsylvania-German Family Registers Preprinted Broadside-type Family Registers with Printed Infill Freehand Broadside-type Family Registers Preprinted Broadside-type Family Registers with Added, Handwritten Infill Preprinted Family Registers Bound into Bibles Freehand Family Registers Written on Blank Pages of Bibles Freehand Family Registers in Booklet Form Epilogue Appendixes Notes Selected References Index