Those potential ancestral associates that could hold the clue to your research include godparents’ of children born to your ancestral sibling. There is a chance that if the godmother of my aunt’s child was a relative of my aunt and her sister. It’s a name I never would have had to research if I had not located all the christening records of my aunt’s children. 
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I’m not aware of any godparents in my family, which includes many different denominations. In which denominations is one likely to see godparents? Apparently Church of England/Episcopal (e.g. the Royal Family), but who else?
Denominations that practice infant baptism are ones where godparents are most likely. In some particularly congregations or ethnic groups the godparents may be parents–in others other family members or close friends of the parents.