¹ As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. One of our main responsibilities at the Moravian Archives Bethlehem is caring for the records of congregations in the church’s Northern Province. A notable example […]

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As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. Often we think of archives as a resource for learning about history through letters, diaries, images, and other records of events that occurred in the past, […]

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As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. This map from 1758 shows the settlement of Bethlehem and the region around it, including one of the many historic locations in the region that can […]

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  As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. Since last year we at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, have been working with the Lehigh Valley Historical Maps Consortium, a group formed to facilitate access to […]

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As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. An interesting aspect of the history of the Moravian Church is the tradition of the Lebensläufe, or memoirs. These accounts of the lives of church members […]

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As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. This piece of nineteenth-century sheet music is the song “Morgenstern auf finstre Nacht” or “Morning Star of the Dark Night” and is an interesting example of […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight: Digital Collections Spotlight #18: Easter By Jonathan Ennis, digital archivist As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. With the Easter holiday fast approaching it seems an apt time to highlight […]

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Over 20 volunteers have graciously contributed their time, expertise, and energy to the Moravian Roots genealogy database. As of January 21, 2020, the total amount of indexed records (baptisms, confirmations, marriages, receptions, removals, and funerals) amounts to 72,459! In total, 68 of ~300 church registers have been fully indexed (see first list below). These entries, […]

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Digital Collections Spotlight #17: Nazareth Hall By Jonathan Ennis, digital archivist As part of an ongoing series of posts, we’re highlighting different collections and items from the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem. Check out our earlier posts in this series at https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/. This interesting 19th-century lithograph is an advertisement for the Nazareth Hall School for Boys, started […]

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On January 19, 2021, the Moravian Archives Bethlehem was delighted to host Dr. Christina Petterson via ZOOM for a virtual lecture. Her lecture titled, Time in Transition and Change in Mission: 1760-1764 in the Moravian Unity, is now available on the Moravian Archives Youtube channel available here.  

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