Pennsylvania Dutch Ancestors? Know what FRAKTUR Is?
Dennis J Yancey
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in Memories
How many of you have Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors??
(which, by the way, are not Dutch)
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch
Among the Pennsylvania Dutch are the common use of FRAKTUR Documents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur_(folk_art)
Over 500 Fraktur items with genealogical information have been uploaded to FamilySearch
see some of them here:
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/gallery/album/630583
Being able to read German is helpful in extracting the family info.
BEAUTIFUL work by the FRAKTUR Folk Artists
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