Delaware Church Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains church records from 1707 to 1939. There are a variety of records from different denominations across several counties in Delaware. Some representative churches include: • 2

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 * The date of specific events
 * Locations of events
 * The names of parents

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 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names, or even initials

Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Delaware.
 * Delaware Guided Research
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 * Step-by-Step Delaware Research, 1880-Present

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson, CG, How to find your family history in U.S. church records: a genealogist's guide Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 2019 FS Library 973 K27m
 * E. C. Hallman, compiled. Centenary Methodist Church of Laurel, Delaware, being a copy of all record books as to membership, baptisms, marriages, and etc. Includes baptisms, 1879-1944; marriages, 1879-1943; membership, 1891-1941.
 * Society of Friends. Wilmington Monthly Meeting. Hicksite. Church records, 1740-1938
 * Indian River. St. George's Chapel. Protestant Episcopal. Church records, 1708-1899 : baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, communicants, etc.
 * Milford. First Presbyterian Church. Church records, 1852-1887
 * Cecilton, Maryland. Matilda Spicer Hart, comp. A copy of the records of St. Stephens Parish (Episcopal)
 * Holy Trinity or (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware computer printout; marriages, 1713-1799
 * Historical Record Survey. Index to records and minutes of the Board of Trustees, Newark Meeting House, Wilmington, Delaware, 1845-1939
 * Historical Records Survey. Society of Friends. A List of births, 1707-1851, marriages, 1733-1917, and deaths, 1736-1872 : copied from the records of Wilmington Friends Meeting
 * copied by Works Progress Administration ; for the Public Archives Committee. Minutes of sessions of Georgetown Presbyterian Church, Lewes Presbytery, Georgetown, 1859-1913
 * Wilmington. Society of Friends. Wilmington Monthly Meeting. Monthly meeting records, 1740-1943
 * Dagsboro. Historical Records Survey. Prince George Church, 1790-1842, 1914
 * copied by Works Progress Administration ; for the Public Archives Committee ; typed by Eleanor Davis/ Record of pastors and official members, 1898-1939, Union M. E. Church, Bridgeville, Del : also marriages, 1912-1939; alphabetical record of members in full connection of Union Methodist Episcopal Church
 * copied by Works Progress Administration ; for the State Archives Commission. Record of Roxanna Circuit M. E. Church, Roxanna, Delaware, 1856-1912.
 * copied by the Historical Records Society. Records of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Delaware, 1788-1915.
 * copied by Works Progress Administration ; for the Public Archives Committee. Records of deaths, marriages, and baptisms of the Lewes Presbyterian Church, Lewes, Delaware, 1737-1856

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939
 * Delaware Baptisms, 1697-1886

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Delaware. Historical Records Survey. Inventory of the Church archives of Delaware : Lutheran Church and Protestant Episcopal Church. Historical Records Survey, 1938.

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