All the non conformist, including Methodist, records for before 1837 in England and Wales that had survived were filmed and can be seen on many pay per view sites - maybe there is a free site as well? They were also included on the IGI (now Family Search). Post 1837 records are usually to be found in County Record Offices, or libraries, provided that they have survived and been deposited. Lincolnshire has some Methodist Records and you should be able to find out what they have via the Lincs to the Past Website. Most have not been filmed and therefore can only be viewed at Lincoln. We have included the post 1837 marriages that are available in the free on-line Post 1837 Marriage Index. There are some Methodist records, mostly not registers, on the LFHS CD "Nonconformist Records Part 1". The CD includes Dissenters Certificates issued to non-conformists as places of worship had to be licensed by the Quarter Sessions. These certificates are often signed by the congregations wishing to use the place of worship. They cover Baptists, Anabaptists, Independents as well as Methodists. Many of these certificates are not indexed and I have photographed all the ones that I have found whilst going through the Kesteven Quarter Sessions, one of the earliest dated 1761 requesting permission for Independent Protestants to meet in a purpose built meeting house in Billinghay. The certificate even gives the name of the person who purchased the land on which the meeting house was built! Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html http://duncalfonenamestudy.tribalpages.com/ Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jan Marchant via Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 5:25 AM To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin note: May theme I haven't been able to find any Methodist records for my ancestors. Fortunately many of them entered their BMDs on Parish Records but I'd like to find Methodist Church records. How do I go about that? Jan Marchant, Australia > Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 10:49:51 -0700 > To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LIN] Admin note: May theme > From: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com > > Hi, Missing Lincs. > > Susan Reynolds suggested our theme for this month: Faith of Our Fathers > > Susan has found that knowing more about the religion of her ancestors has made it easier for her to navigate the records that were kept. It's likely that our ancestor were more religious than we might be. Once a week they marched off to church to hear a sermon on Christian history and values. Or they attended synagogue or a pagan rite, but there was almost all some "belief system" that was a part of their lives. In most of Britain, the Church (the Christian one) assumed a civil role for over a 1,000 years. The Royals took advantage of that structure the church had in place. When Civil Registration was introduced, the local christian parishes became the Civil Parishes (with some minor exceptions). There were some holdovers from the Viking Era: Wapentakes and Hundreds. > > Even the courts recognized the legitimacy of birthright using the parish baptism registers. > > So there are valuable records that the churches kept. Not only the registers of baptism and marriage and burial, but the churchwarden accounts, church census records (these are rare), confirmation lists and others. Many of the churches were our first schools. > > If you haven't dug through some of those records, you might find some interesting information. I found one of my relatives down in Kent was an adult in a confirmation class. Must have stood out like a sore thumb! I imagine him sitting there with all those 12 to 14 year-olds, trying to focus on what he had to learn. The local Bishop attended their first communion. > > So, tell us what you've found about a Lincolnshire relative in some unexpected church record. And if you need help, this is the place to ask. > > Lou (list admin.) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7596 / Virus Database: 4565/12167 - Release Date: 05/05/16 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7596 / Virus Database: 4565/12167 - Release Date: 05/05/16