Methodist Church in the United States

United States   Church Records   Methodist Church Records 

History in the United States
By 1850 approximately one-third of all American Protestants were Methodists. From about 1820 to 1920 Methodism was the largest Protestant denomination.

Types of Church Records

 * Baptisms (infant and adult)
 * Marriages
 * Burials
 * Ministerial Records

Writing to Local Churches

 * United Methodist Church Find a Church
 * USA Churches Methodist Church Directory

Archives
United Methodist Archives Center Drew University Library P.O. Box 127 Madison, NJ 07940 Telephone: 201-408-3189 Fax: 201-408-3909 Internet: www.gcah.org

The website for the General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH) includes a guide for family history researchers: http://www.gcah.org/research/how-to-research-your-family

The GCAH has also teamed with other United Methodist-affiliated libraries, seminaries, and archives, and the Internet Archive to create the American Methodism Project, a "a digitized collection of interdisciplinary and historical materials related to American Methodism." It can be accessed here: https://archive.org/details/americanmethodism

Cyndi's List - Methodist http://www.cyndislist.com/methodist/

Ministers
A list of Methodist ministers and the churches or circuits they served, extracted from the archives of the church minutes: https://www.ourfamtree.org/records/religion.php?denom=1615&

A list of transfers of Methodist ministers from one conference to another, extracted from the archives of the church minutes: https://www.ourfamtree.org/records/transfers.php