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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, death, 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,...
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Scope and content: The minute book includes information about the operation of the Second Presbyterian Church Sabbath School, apparently a school operated under church auspices, but not directly related to church services or Sunday schools. Some of the kinds of information appearing in the minutes include: fundraising and offerings for the school; operations of the school library; financial reports; committee reports; the annual picnic; the number...
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Scope and content: The minute book of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Nashville, Tennessee begins with the first meeting of the group, held on Dec. 30, 1888 at the prompting of the pastor of the church, J.W. Stagg. Minutes include attendance and membership matters, including some rolls; financial reports; synopsis of committee reports; fundraising and social activities; the selection of delegates...
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"Searching for Scotch-Irish Roots is the first book to collect the evidence scattered throughout manuscripts and some published works held in libraries and archives throughout Scotland, especially in the southwest. Mr. Dobson divides the records into five main categories: Church Records, Town (Burgh) Records, Court Records, Miscellaneous Government Records, and University and other private record collections. Subsumed within these categories, researchers...
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Scope and content: Minute book of the Society of Church Workers of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, Tenn., from 1897 to 1914, with the vast majority of entries from 1897-1899. No entries exist outside of this two year span except for very brief entries for 1910 and 1914. The front of the book indicates it is volume 4, but no other volumes are in the holdings of the Nashville Public Library. The constitution of the organization appears at...
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Scope and content: Contains a wide variety of materials, mostly from the twentieth century, about Nashville area churches. Includes church histories, biographies of local ministers and other prominent persons in the Christian religious life of Nashville; printed sermons; church bulletins; membership lists; promotional literature; church periodicals and related literature; architectural information on historic church buildings; information about particular...