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American Society of Church History

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ancestry.com - U.S. and Canada, Quaker Monthly Meeting Historical Data, 1671-2010 $

Original source: Hill, Thomas C., QuakerMeetings.com: Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index. Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S. and UK, Quaker Published Memorials, 1818-1919 $

This database contains memorial volumes with death dates and other details for members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) from both the U.S. and the UK. Original source: Published Memorials. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Published Memorials. Guilford College. Greensboro, North Carolina; Published Memorials. Haverford College. Haverford, Pennsylvania. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Presbyterian Records, 1743-1970 $

Original source: Church Registers. Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Quaker Genealogies, 1893-2003 $

Original source: Collected Genealogies. Lilly Library, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Association of Religion Data Archives - Community GIS Maps and Profile Reports

Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) - Data Archive

Churches and Cemeteries & other Houses of Worship

Every house of worship and burial ground in the 50 States and DC listed by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, indexed alphabetically and linked to a Google map.

Churches dot Net - Global Church Web Pages - United States

Diocese and Bishop Addresses

From the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Church Records

Record types, content, locating church records, when the first search fails, links to 25 major denomination wiki pages, and links to state church record Wiki pages.

Findmypast - United States/Canada- The Scotch-Irish in the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Handbook of Denominations in the United States (Amazon.com)

How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records: A Genealogist's Guide: With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations before 1900 (Amazon.com)

By Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson

JewishGen - American Jewish Year Book Obituary Index

Names of Over 3,000 Notable Jews Who Died Between 1948 and 1998.

JewishGen - The Rabbi Samuel Langer Database

Including Births, Bar & Bas Mitzvahs, Hebrew School Students, Graduations, Marriages, Installation of Officers, Funerals & Unveilings along the eastern seaboard from 1929 to the 1960s.

JewishGen USA Database

A multiple database search facility which incorporates databases contributed by individual donors. The combined databases have more than 1.75 million entries.

Report on Statistics of Churches in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890 (Google Books)

By United States. Census Office, Henry King Carroll, 1894.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries

The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America

A book by Bret E. Carroll.