This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YVZ.2ACIB/28.1 Message Board Post: There are a number of ways you might find out about Rev. Victor GODBEY. Since he was a Methodist minister, the UMC keeps good records of ministers. Typically this will cost a few dollars for the research. You might try http://www.gcah.org which is the General Conference Archives of the UMC. Also, each year there is a "Conference Annual" published. If you know the year of his death, locate this conference annual and he most likely will have an obit published. At times in the 1800's the Methodist Church had regional magazines called "Christian Advocates." One was the Nashville Christian Advocate, one was the St. Louis Christian Advocate, the Pacific Christian Advocate, etc. I cannot tell you when the last ones were published, but many times obits of both ministers and family members were published in these as well. I know this doesn't give you much to go on, but it might get you started in a direction. Mike