Source Information

Lineages, Inc., comp. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1751-1800: Trinity Union Lutheran and Reformed Church [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Original data:

  • Hinke, William J. Trinity Union Church, Record of the Reformed Congregation, Springfield Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, 1760-1800. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Hinke, William J. Trinity Union Church, Record of the Lutheran Congregation, Springfield Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, 1751-95. Unpublished manuscript.
  • About Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1751-1800: Trinity Union Lutheran and Reformed Church

    Bucks County lies in the southeast corner of Pennsylvania, along the Delaware River. This database contains records from both the Trinity Union Reformed Church and the Trinity Union Lutheran Church in Bucks County. These records detail baptisms, marriages, and deaths for the years 1750 to 1800.

    Church records rank among the very best genealogical records available worldwide, but they are one of the most under-used sources in American genealogy. Until the advent of vital statistics in the United States—a very late development in most states—church records were the primary source of birth, marriage, and death information. The sheer number of denominations and affiliate churches has made identifying and locating each one's records a time-consuming ordeal for most genealogists. Church records also vary a great deal in content and emphasis according to the basic theology of the religious group that created them.

    Early immigrants from England, Scotland, and other European countries brought their religious beliefs, institutions, and customs with them, including the keeping of church books in which to record births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communion lists, deaths, and burials. Lutheran and Reformed Church records in Pennsylvania rank among the very best church records available.