Church Record Sunday: American Church Records Resources

From the collection of Gena Philibert-Ortega

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to the San Diego Genealogical Society on the topic of American Church Records. For this Church Record Sunday, I thought I would share a list of the resources I provided in the handout for this presentation.

Catholic

American Catholic Historical Society <http://www.amchs.org/>

University of Notre Dame Archives  <http://archives.nd.edu/>

Early California Population Project at

<http://www.huntington.org/Information/ECPPmain.htm>

Local Catholic Church and Family History  <http://localcatholic.webs.com/ >

Women of Vision, Index of Catholic Nuns in Australia

Methodist

General Commission of Archives and History

<http://www.gcah.org/site/pp.aspx?c=ghKJI0PHIoE&b=3590193>

Archives of Ohio United Methodism <http://library.owu.edu/spuma.htm>

Boston University Methodist Organizations and Archives

<http://www.bu.edu/sthlibrary/archives/methodist-org-arch/>

Latter-day Saints

Links for Researching Mormon Pioneers  on Gena’s website <http://yourfamilyhistoryresearch.com/links3.shtml>

Church History Library <http://churchhistorylibrary.lds.org>

L. Tom Perry Special Collections (BYU Library)

Jewish

Nu? What’s New? A Jewish Genealogy E-Zine <http://www.avotaynu.com/nu.htm>

Jewish Gen  <http://www.jewishgen.org/>

350 Years of Jewish Life in America via the Library of Congress <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/>

American Jewish Historical Society

General Resources on the Internet

PERSI at Ancestry.com or Heritage Quest

Cyndi’s List. Religion & Churches  

In Family Search, www.familysearch.org,  to find Church Records do a library catalog subject or keyword search for the name of the religion or do a locality search and then click on Church History or Church Records.

The FamilySearch Wiki has various research topics including church records. Go to the Wiki <https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Main_Page> and use the search engine to find the information about the religion you are researching.

Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library  <http://www.cslib.org/church.htm>

Beverly Whitaker’s Genealogy Tutor on Religious Features for the Family Historian

<http://home.roadrunner.com/~gentutor/page6.html>

Locating Church Records by Val D. Greenwood 

Church Records: Genealogical Clues by Myra Vanderpool Gormley

<http://www.genealogymagazine.com/church.html>

Books

Humling, V. (1995). U.S. Catholic sources: a diocesan research guide. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry.

Warner, M. D. L. W., Munnick, H. D., Beckham, S. D., & Munnick, A. R. (1972). Catholic Church records of the Pacific Northwest. St. Paul, OR: French Prairie Press.

Sperry, Kip (2007). A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources. Utah: My Family.com, Incorporated.

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (1994). Genealogical Publishing, Inc.

Berry, Ellen Thomas and Berry, David. Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding them in Quaker Records (2002). Genealogical Publishing Company.

Church Records by Elizabeth Crabtree Wells, In The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy (2006). Ingram Publishing Services.

Vosburgh, Roydon Woodward. Early New York church records; a report and digest of the records transcribed by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1918 to 1920.