Ancestry.com adds Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940

A collection now digitized and on Ancestry.com may prevent me from cleaning house on Monday.  I had heard these records held by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) were in the process of being digitized. I regularly check the “New Records” section on my main Ancestry page and shouldn’t have done so right now […]

Genealogist saves the day — well, some church records

Earlier this year, I blogged about the stolen records of a Moravian Church in Chaska, Minnesota. https://genealogybypaula.com/category/church-records/ Unfortunately, the crime hasn’t been solved but the Star-Tribune has an update about some photographed pages of the death records. “One small consolation came early this month. The church was a polling place, and a voter saw the […]