Pennsylvania Dutch Ancestors? Know what FRAKTUR Is?

Dennis J Yancey

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