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A Retrospect of St. John the Baptist's Parish, Pottsville (1917)

About this source

A Retrospect of St. John the Baptist’s Parish is a souvenir history of St. John the Baptist’s Catholic Church in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, written by Rev. Henry John Steinhagen and published in 1917 to mark the 75th anniversary of the parish’s founding in 1842. The Internet Archive holds a digitized copy under item identifier stjohnbptpotts1917_images, with the work contributed to the Internet Archive by the Pottsville Free Public Library.

The book is in the public domain in the United States by virtue of its publication date (prior to 1929).

Why this source matters for Schuylkill County genealogy

For researchers tracing Catholic ancestors in Pottsville and the surrounding boroughs, a parish history of this vintage can supplement civil records held at the Schuylkill County Courthouse and indexed elsewhere in the schuylkillhub history corpus (the J. H. Beers 1916 Historical and Biographical Annals of Schuylkill County in particular). The specific contents of this souvenir history have not yet been catalogued on schuylkillhub; downstream pages that cite the souvenir will deep-link to the specific archive.org page scan.

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