My great-great-grandfather was a part-time Methodist Minister between 1850 and 1900 in Alabama. I found that Huntingdon College kept the archives of the Methodist Church in Alabama. I e-mailed them for any info they might have. They sent me a one-page data sheet that included: his full name, his parents’ names, his wife’s name, her parents’ names, his twelve children’s names and dates of birth. They also included an obituary for my great-great-grandmother that appeared in “The Christian Advocate” in 1917. I found that church archives can be a “gold mine”.

Robin Caldwell
Asheville, North Carolina

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