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Scope and Contents This artificial collection compiled by the staff of the Vedder Research Library describes published inventories of church records currently available on our shelves. The collection is broken down by county, and are almost exclusively protestant christian denominations. Records are primarily transcriptions of original vital statistics records composed using typewriters or word processors. Many volumes contain custom indexes, and some smaller volumes are bound in combination with...

Scope and Contents This pocket record is a small formatted notebook made specifically for ministers and geared towards the specific type of daily record keeping they would be interested in. As such, Reverend Wood's pocket record contains pages covering the topics of weekly sermons and listing bible passages referenced for each, as well as a register of baptisms, special services, and funeral services he attended during his time at the Leeds Reformed Church. Of particular note are the Funeral Service notes, as...

Scope and Contents This collection comprises three books containing primarily minutes of the meetings of Trustees of what was initially a single Congregational Meeting located along the Batavia Kill in the vicinity of Pleasant Valley. This Meeting, which drew congregants from the modern Townships of Windham, Ashland, and Jewett, persisited from roughly 1803 for about a decade when the old Meeting began to fracture into individual Presbyterian Churches. It is from this original Congregational Meeting that the...