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Taufschein

Taufschein

Taufschein or Lutheran baptismal certificate of Jacob Lantz, born in Shenandoah County in 1814, by the so-called Stoney Creek artist. Shenandoah County was the heartland of German settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. The certificate is printed in German.

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