Church Archives

GENERAL & REGIONAL - all denominations:

Overview of Church Records Research from the Wisconsin Historical Society

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic from the Library of Congress has a good historical overview of religion in early America.

BAPTIST

American Baptist Historical Society

Baptist History & Heritage Society

Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives

CATHOLIC

Genealogical Resources & Services of St. Mary's Seminary & University - St. Mary's was the earliest large Catholic settlement in Maryland and the families there pioneered early to places like Ohio, Kentucky, Southwest Pennsylvania etc. taking their religion with them.

Local Catholic Church and Family History & Genealogical Research Guide

CONGREGATIONALIST

Congregational Christian Historical Society - the protestant puritan movement that settled New England became known as Congregationalists. If you had a New England minister in your family or a later Congregationalist minister check here at their large database of obits for clergy and missionaries

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Church of the Nazarene Archives

LUTHERAN

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Archives

METHODIST

United Methodist General Commission on Archives & History

MORAVIAN

Moravian Archives from the Moravian Historical Society

PENTECOSTAL

Assembly of God: Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center

International Pentecostal Holiness Church Archives

PRESBYTERIAN

Presbyterian Historical Society of Philadelphia collects, preserves and tells the story of the American Presbyterian experience.

QUAKER

Digital Quaker Collection from Earlham School of Religion