Is there a Methodist minister in your family tree? You may be interested in this new CD. Conference Journals Memoirs: An index to memoirs printed in conference journals held by the G.C.A.H. A new searchable database covering the memoirs of ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the Evangelical Association/Church, the United Brethren in Christ and the United Evangelical Church is now available in CD format from the General Commission on Archives and History. This database was designed as an index to a resource, not as a resource itself. It does not contain complete biographical information, or a complete pastoral record. This database is an index to the memoirs printed in the various annual conference journals held by the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Not only are there memoirs of pastors in these journals, but often their spouses and in some cases lay leaders of the annual conference. The database only contains information up to the 1939 conference journals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and prior to 1946 for the Evangelical Church, The United Brethren in Christ and the United Evangelical Church. There are approximately 61,000 name entries. The database gives you the information to determine in what journal, year, and page the memoir appears. You will still need to locate the journal in order to get at the information. You can do this by either contacting the Commission or the appropriate annual conference archives. The CD comes with its own search engine. It requires a Pentium level PC with at least a 4x CD drive. It runs only on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT. There is no version for the Mac. The CD can be ordered from the General Commission on Archives and History for $10, including postage. You can order it from the Commission: E-mail: research@gcah.org; Phone: 973-408-3189; Mail: GCAH, P.O. Box 127, Madison, NJ 07940

Cheryl, Do you know how far back in time this CD index goes? My husbands great grandfather was a ME minister in Philadelphia in the late 1850s. He then became a chaplain in the Union Army. I don't know if he preached after the war but he died in Gentry, MO in 1885 at age 78. His name was Benjamin T. Sewell. Dottie > Is there a Methodist minister in your family tree? You may be interested in > this new CD. . The database only contains > information up to the 1939 conference journals of the Methodist Episcopal > Church,