Delaware Church Records

Online Records

 * 1707-1939 - Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939 - index and images, incomplete.
 * Awesome Genealogy has a few transcribed church records for Delaware.

A transcription of the registers and minutes of nearly 100 church records from the 1680s to the 1930s was made by the Delaware Historical Records Survey. These are at the Delaware Public Archives and are on microfilm at the Family History Library.

Delaware Church Records: A Research Guide is a free online guide created by the University of Delaware Library.

An old list of church addresses and ministers is:


 * Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Delaware. Dover, Delaware: Historical Records Survey, 1942. ; digital version at Ancestry ($). To find the nearest library that has this book, use WorldCat.


 * ''Index Cards of Delaware Marriages, Baptisms, Births, and Death, 1689-1913


 * Raymond B. Clark's, Delaware Church Records, contains baptisms, marriages, deaths, and tombstone inscriptions from several churches including Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Quaker churches for the period 1686-1880. A copy of the book can be found in the . purchase options. For a copy nearest you, check WorldCat.
 * Frederick Lewis Weis's The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia, is an alphabetical listing of the clergy in Delaware from 1638-1776, and includes names, dates, and places. A copy of the book is located in the . For a copy nearest you, check WorldCat.

Many denominations have collected their records into central repositories. The following are addresses of regional archives:

Amish
Allen B. Clark's, This Is Good Country: A History of the Amish of Delaware, 1915-1988, has information about the European beginnings of the Mennonite and Amish groups, their migration, and settlement in Delaware. It also includes traditions, names and dates. A copy of the book can be found in the. To locate the copy nearest you, try WorldCat.

Roman Catholic
Diocese of Wilmington Archives P.O. Box 2030 Greenville, DE 19899 Telephone: (302) 655-0597

The Diocese of Wilmington consists of the Delaware counties of Kent, New Castle and Sussex. The diocese also covers the following counties in Maryland: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester.