Church records are more than just baptisms, marriages, and funerals–often these records of these events document vital events in a person’s life-birth, marriage, and death.

But there are more. Records of communion, membership, confirmation, etc. may also provide key information. Don’t only look “the big three.” You may miss quite a bit.

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  1. When researching one of my maternal ancestors, church records brought up a wedding record – not hers. It amazingly listed everyone in the wedding party, and she was one of the bridesmaids.
    I’d wondered how she and my paternal ancestor might have met. I knew he was at the seminary in the town where she lived, but it was a good sized city then – and a quite large city now 150 odd years later..
    She was still living at home, not in school, not working. Anyway there they both were – in the same Church wedding party. Mystery solved.
    That also turned out to be the “sister church” to the seminary.

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