Published Church Records

Since we are working on immigrants who came to this country in the nineteenth century, it is very possible that their church records might have been published.

This is a page from a New York Historical Society Publication. It would be indexed not by the ancestor's name but by the topic of New York Marriages and a town or county in PERSI. These were part of German Reformed marriages. It acts as an index to the collection. It could likely be indexed by surname in the periodical's index.

This is a typed manuscript from the 1950s and 1960s of "Old Acquackanock Church, Passaic, N.J." found on FHL film 860,342 part of a DAR unindexed collection. Thus it is important to locate the place before the individuals can be found.

This resource of church records was found under the topic of NEW YORK, GENEALOGY in the FHLC. Notice it is in book form and on microfilm 1320671 so it can be sent to family history centers. It was indexed.

Here is a page from this book. It is listing a church in New Jersey because people would travel by water to attend a church of their liking. The FHLC also made a listing for this book under NEW JERSEY-GENEALOGY. Be willing to look in a thirty-mile radius for the church of your ancestor. Notice all the vital information available.