Item Name	Fraktur - Birth Record	Image1
Owner(s)	Eby, Isaac
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1808 - Late: 1808
Description	A small, colourful Fraktur birth record (Geburtschein) for Isaac Eby. The text, framed in a red and yellow border, reads: "Isaac Eby ist Geboren den 30 ten July im Jahr Anno. 1808." The name is in green, red , black and brown, while the rest of the German text is done in red only. The record is embellished with black scroll work. The initials of the Fraktur artist are in red, in the calligraphy of the second "A' in Isaac, however they cannot be made out.
Provenance	Isaac Eby was the eldest son of Benjamin Eby, he was born in Berlin, Ontario. He married Veronica Shoemaker (daughter of John and Mary (Shantz) Shoemaker), on October 31, 1831. They farmed for nearly 43 years on land two and a half miles east of Berlin. Isaac and his wife had ten children: Menno, Mary, Isaac, Daniel, Christian, Theodore, Barnabas, Ezra E., Benjamin and Lydia Ann.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
Accession No.	1995.023.002

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.