Early Church Records
Our sincere appreciation to these Church's for making most of these records available and to those who donated their time and effort to transcribe
them from the original records to this format.
We have taken editorial liberties from time to time, changing from one language to another, or presenting our own translations in order to
provide information which more viewers can understand, while keeping as close to the original text as possible.
Remember that these records were handwritten, and both handwriting and languages often changed over the years as different people recorded
the information making transcription difficult.
Differences in the spelling of your ancestors name may be attributed to this problem or to differences in
the original record, or to typographical
errors. Therefore we suggest scrolling through the lists rather than depending upon computer searches when possible.
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St. John Lutheran Church of Bellville
Early Records
1830s-1941
Our sincere appreciation to St. John Lutheran Church of Bellville for making
these records available and to Dr. Bob and Joy Neely who donated their time and
effort to transcribe them.
You will notice that the range of dates vary with the different sections of
material. Some birthdays from the 1830's are shown in the membership section,
although the entries in the sections start later and some end before 1941.
Birthdays are usually shown on Baptismal record.
