A set of records beginning in the 1840s when the congregation was founded by a group of Pennsylvania Germans until the 1880s when it comprised nearly all Alsatian immigrants and their descendants has been transcribed from the original Gothic handwriting and then translated from German into English is in the possession of the Yates County Historian's Office. Among them are 74 weddings. The register has been transcribed for this site, and indexed; each wedding has had a number added to it, with a date span as follows:
27 September 1846 - 16 November 1850 #s 1 - 9
7 November 1856 - 6 March 1858 #s10 - 18
22 August 1858 - 2 June 1861 #s19 - 29
23 November 1862 - 1872 #s 30 - 45
16 December 1874 - 21 January 1885 #s 46 - 74
Below is a an alphabetical list of grooms and brides. The number following each name is the chronological number of the wedding. Please follow the link to the actual transcription of the register.
Following is an index to the deceased persons listed in the register of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the town of Potter. Each name is followed by a number, which refers to the transcript of the register. The numbers are in more or less chronological order as follows:
#s 1 - 30: 21 February 1844 - 20 January 1861
#s 31 - 78: 3 April 1856 - 23 February 1872
#s 79 - 84: 5 April 1872 - 13 March 1873
#s 85 - 110: 2 Janary 1874 - 11 September 1885
Note: The names of all parents and baptized children mentioned in the record book 1842-1888 are indexed below. Some variant spellings of surnames are noted in boldface, but no effort was made to index separately all variant given names. So, for example, Catharine, Catarina, Katherine and Katarina are all indexed together, as are Frederick, Friederich etc.
Baptisms 1-59: 1842-1850
Baptisms 60-154: 1851-1860
Baptisms 155-248: 1861-1870
Baptisms 249-309: 1871-1879
Baptisms 310-372: 1880 - 1888
http://www.yatescounty.org/upload/12/historian/StJohn.htm
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