2006.033

Saint Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church

Gift

Courtesy of Saint Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church, Hoboken.

1856 - 1875

Date(s) Created: 1856-1875 Date(s): 1856-1875

Notes: Location of original document: St. Matthew's Trinity Lutheran Church, Hoboken, N.J. Original format: ca. 8" x 14" high; three-quarter-leather bound record book. Condition: disbound, brittle, occasional chipped fore-edges especially front leaves. Numbered (press numbered) and ruled leaves, 8-1/4" x 13-5/8" high blue wove paper (no watermark) with 6 ruled columns. Total number of pages: 588; blank leaves not scanned as noted below. Total number of pages imaged: 571 (imaged as 8 sections by subject; images named: [section no.]-[page no.], e.g . 01-001) Text in German, un-translated; holographic entries, all in ink (blue pre-dominant.) No finding aid is available except this page with section names, page numbers and column headings as listed below. Disks 1-6 [01] Baptisms - 11/30/1856 - 9/28/1873 - pages 1-299 (see continuation on pages 538-537) Headings - entry #'s Date Child Parents Sponsors 1-1505 Disks 7-8 [02] Marriages - 2/22/1857 - 3/11/1874 - pages 300-399 (see continuation on pages 470-480) Headings - entry #'s Date Bridegroom Bride Witnesses 1-600 Disks 9-10 [03] Funerals - 2/27/1857 - 11/22/1874 - pages 400-469 (see continuation on pages 494-497) Headings - entry #'s Date of Death Deceased Cemetery Cause of 1-420 Date of Burial Death Disk 11 [04] Marriages - 3/14/1874 - 10/31/1875 - pages 470-480 Headings - entry #'s Date Bridegroom Bride Witnesses 601-662 Disk 11 [05] Funerals - 12/1/1874 - 10/1/1875 - pages 494-497 Headings - entry #'s Date of Death Deceased Cemetery Cause of 421-448 Date of Burial Death Disk 12 [06] Confirmations - 1857-1875 - pages 500-524 Entry #'s 1-387 Disk 12 [07] Communion - 1857-1875 - pages 526-536 (Entries are tallies by year) Disk 13 [08] Baptisms - 9/28/1873 - 10/3/1875 - pages 538-588 (end of record book no. 1) Headings - entry #'s Date Child Parents Sponsors 1506 - 1767 Disk 14 Portable Document Format (PDF) files Blank pages (not imaged): 481-493, 498-499, 525, 537 ST. MATTHEW'S Trinity Lutheran Church, 8th & Hudson Sts., Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A. (page 2 of 2) Founded 1856. Digital images of Record BOOK No. 1 starting date: 1856 This volume is on 14 CD-R disks. end date: 1875 Image file name arrangement: [2 digit section number][image sequence number][section subject name]page[book page number] Example: "02-305 Marriages pg 305" breaks down as 02 = section 2 (in major subject sequence found in volume), followed by a hyphen 305 = image no. 305 (in the full group of scans from this volume) Marriage = subject of the section of this book page 305 = the page numbered 305 ("pg" is also found) (this applies only when the volume has printed numbers; numbers appear in brackets when missing or needed for collation purposes.) Imaging information: Documents scanned 2006 with Epson scanners; RGB, 300 dpi, 100% of original size Saved as maximum quality JPEG's typically circa 13 megabytes each Recorded on Kodak Gold Preservation CD-R (700 MB), archival compact disks; stored in tyvek sleeves. Number of sets and locations: This document is recorded on 14 disks. Five complete sets were produced. Location of Sets: Set 1 - Master copy: Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hoboken, N.J. Set 2 - Research copy: Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hoboken Set 3 - Research copy: The Lutheran Archives Center, Philadelphia, PA Set 4 - Duplicate master copy: Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, N.J. Set 5 - Research copy: Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, N.J. Included in the set are disks with Portable Document Format (PDF) files created using Adobe Acrobat Professional. Images were reduced in size for PDF's to make the file faster to open and read. end Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2006-10-31