Includes more than 17,000 recorded birth records. Each entry lists the family name; name of the infant; date of birth or baptism; names of both parents; mother's maiden name if given; and the source where the information was found. Over 4,000 of these births were found in a previously untranslated register for St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church. That register, begun as a personal register in 1762 by Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, runs concurrently with another register for the same congregation. (570pp. hardcover. Author, 1995.)