| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.1

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To the Latest Posterity: Pennsylvania-German Family Registers in the Fraktur Tradition. By Corinne Earnest and Russell Earnest. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. xxi, 153p. Illustrations, notes, appendices, selected references, index. $45.)
The Earnests have been studying Fraktur and the Pennsylvania Germans (immigrants from German-speaking Europe and their descendants) for whom it was produced for over thirty years. In this volume of the Pennsylvania German Society's Pennsylvania German History and Culture series they address family registers. They examine these often overlooked documents, which can be used as sources for social history as well as for their more apparent family and folk-art functions. The Earnests also looked at New England examples, which are very similar in content, differing only in decoration.	1
Family registers were produced to be passed down in the family. Families, therefore, wanted the best document possible, going so far as paying a "professional" to print, hand letter, or decorate their precious registers.	. . .

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