Johannes Bachman Ledger Files Transcription and translation of the ledger kept by coffin-maker Johannes Bachman of Strasburg, Pa., in which he recorded the names of persons for whom he built coffins from 1771-1810. This is a record of deaths rather than a collection of obituaries. Each file below represents one page of a translation of the ledger of coffin-maker Johannes Bachman. The original ledger is written in German script. The pages are numbered with the following format: [JB-PP], where P=page. To find an obituary in the record books, use the indexes.