Note
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]<hyphen>[image sequence number]<space>[section subject name]<space>page<space>[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.
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Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2006-10-31
