How To Find Your Family History In U.S. Church Records

How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records, A Genealogist's Guide: With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations before 1900; by Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson; 154 pp; paperback; 8.5x11; Published: 2019; ISBN: 9780806320953; Item # GPC3911. Records created by the major Christian denominations before 1900 in the United States 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. However, it is not always an easy task to track down U.S. church records. How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records is a unique, peer-reviewed publ