{"id":16944,"date":"2023-08-08T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16944"},"modified":"2023-08-10T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T12:32:06","slug":"communion-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/communion-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Communion Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Communion tokens were used by members of Reformed churches in Scotland and other areas of Europe as a means of granting access to communion in the church. Generally speaking it meant the the holder of the token or coin had received sufficient instruction and was a member of the local congregation in good standing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/communion-coin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/communion-coin.jpg 854w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/communion-coin-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/communion-coin-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The genealogist may be interested in these coins or tokens. If one is found in a relative&#8217;s attic, trunk, or elsewhere it could be a clue as to where the family had lived at one point in time. The communion token in the illustration was issued in 1850 to someone from Lochmaben in Scotland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information on the coins can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communion_token\">Wikipedia <\/a>and t<a href=\"https:\/\/historylinksdornoch.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/16\/communion-tokens-what-are-they-and-how-were-they-used\/\">his online article<\/a>. They can also be found for sale on <a href=\"https:\/\/ebay.us\/lOTVH5\">Ebay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to David Rencher who made me aware of these on a recent episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyquickstart.com\/\">Genealogy QuickStart.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communion tokens were used by members of Reformed churches in Scotland and other areas of Europe as a means of granting access to communion in the church. Generally speaking it meant the the holder of the token or coin had received sufficient instruction and was a member of the local congregation in good standing. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}