The Shenandoah County Library’s Truban Archives and Shenandoah Room and its competent and energetic archivist, Zach Hottel, provide an important resource in Shenandoah County. SCHS is always pleased to promote Zach’s initiatives in the community and are happy to encourage response to his effort to have a citizens journal about their experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Zach has passed along this link for your use.
SCHS works closely with Zach on many fronts; as a member of the Shenandoah County History Council, with a standing position on the Truban Archives & Shenandoah Room Advisory Committee and co-hosting our annual Shenandoah County Heritage Day with the library. We also enjoy mutual cooperation with family history research requests, have made many donations of books and other materials to the Archives when appropriate, and participate jointly with other projects. Zach has a regular column in the SCHS newsletter and helps to keep our Facebook page fresh and informative.
• Foster a spirit of cooperation between existing organizations, writers, historians, genealogists, collectors, preservationists, and other members of the Shenandoah County community.
• Aid in the collection and creation of materials and publications about the history of Shenandoah County and ensure that they are preserved and made available to the community.
• Support efforts by citizens, organizations and government to preserve historic buildings and sites.
• Share history through programs and exhibits.
The Shenandoah County Historical Society was founded in 1985 and is established as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. It is completely volunteer driven. The Society is sustained by memberships, donations, grants and profits from book sales. All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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Faith in the Valley Vol. I
Daniel Warrick Burrus
Early Church Records. Jacobs Church, Swover Creek, Shenandoah County, Va. 1995. 116 pages.
Softcover
Item# 5001
Price: $16
Members: $15
Solomon Church Baptisms (1793-1850) Forestville Va.
Klaus Wust
Solomon Church began in 1793 as a separate congregation. Its membership, both Lutheran and Reformed for many decades, can hardly be distinguished from that of Old Pine Church. The old German records of both churches were bound together in one volume. Book contains history and baptismal records. 1989. 59 pages.
Softcover
Item# 5014
Price: $13
Members: $12
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Smithfield Lutheran Register (1792-1826) - Middleway, Jefferson Co., W.Va. • Klaus Wust • Church history and baptismal records from1792 to 1826. Translated from the original German records begun by Minister John David Young. 1993. 60 pages. Softcover • Item #5013 • Price: $10 Members: $9
Faith in the Valley Vol. V • Daniel Warrick Burruss & Sandra Helsley Yelton • Early Church Records. United Brethren Churches of Old Edinburg Circuit (1796-1949), Edinburg, Otterbein, Conicville, Hawkinstown, Columbia Furnace, Mount Hermon. 1998. 137 pages. Softcover • Item #5005 • Price: $16 Members: $15
Reformed Zion - Pine Church Record (1788-1827) • Klaus Wust • German entries from the Reformed side of the Zion-Pine church at Stoney Creek Va. This was the mother church for Lutheran and Reformed congregations in Woodstock, Edinburg, Mt. Jackson, Orkney Springs and Jerome areas. Also lists baptisms and confirmations. 1984. 59 pages. Softcover • Item #5011 • Price: $10 Members: $9
Faith in the Valley Vol. I • Daniel Warrick Burrus • Early Church Records. Jacobs Church, Swover Creek, Shenandoah County, Va. 1995. 116 pages. Softcover • Item #5001 • Price: $16 Members: $15DOWNLOAD BOOK ORDER FORMS HERE
