Some of you might be lucky enough to have Pennsylvania German birth and baptismal certificates that were done for family members well over 100 years ago. Or you just might be intrigued by the art and ...

The email from Corinne Earnest, part of a husband-wife-daughter team of experts on fraktur documents of the Pennsylvania Germans, was casually stated. She had been at an auction and one of the ...

Pictured is a blank page from a traditional baptismal register. The French bishops' permanent council has approved a recommendation to remove gender references on baptismal certificates to remove ...

If this is the case, it means I share ancestry with Pope Leo XIV through my great-grandmother Eugenie Lemelle’s paternal ...

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For over 20 years I have been researching Taufscheine, the colorful birth and baptismal certificates done for Pennsylvania German children. I am especially interested in those created for children of ...

An adult baptism in the Catholic Church. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen David Mills writes that before his reception into the Church, along with his wife, as Anglo-Catholics, “We believed ourselves ...