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How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records

How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records

Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson

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Subtitled “A Genealogist’s Guide: With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations Before 1900.”

Records created by the major Christian denominations before 1900 in the U.S. are an underutilized resource for family historians. In these records you may find ancestors’ births, maiden or married names, marriage details, deaths, family relationships, other residences, and even immigrants’ overseas birthplaces. You may uncover information about ancestors who have been unnamed in other records—women, children, ethnic minorities, immigrants, and the poor. You may find details about your ancestors recorded long before the existence of civil records. This unique book takes researchers step-by-step through the process of identifying, locating, and gaining access to these genealogical gems. Included are hundreds of links to church research resources, as well as chapters devoted to specific resources for the major Christian denominations before 1900. (154pp. illus. index. Gen. Pub. Co., 2019.)


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