My apologies. Sometimes I check my personal e-mail through a web site while I am at work. When I reply, the interface automatically sends the message to the author of the original message and not the group for some reason. I will try to make sure my replies are sent back to the group list from now on. The German Reformed Church was more or less strictly Calvinist in doctrine. In the 1930s, it merged with the German Evangelical Church to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Prussia had forced a union between the Lutheran and Reformed churches in its territories beginning in the early 1800s. Immigrants from those areas formed the German Evangelical Church in the U.S., and so it had a mixture of Lutheran and Reformed doctrine. Some congregations would have considered themselves essentially Lutheran, but neither the German Evangelical Church, nor later the Evangelical and Reformed Church, were ever in communion with any of the Lutheran denominations, as far as I know. In 1958 the Evangelical and Reformed Church merged with the Congregational Christian Churches to form the United Church of Christ (which IS now in full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). > From: "Ella Hauser" <ellah@prodigy.net> > Organization: Prodigy Internet > Reply-To: LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:15:08 -0500 > To: LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LUTH-ROOTS] Introduction > Resent-From: LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:23:51 -0800 > > Scott, wish you would answer to Alice to the list as others would be > interested > in both your answers. > > Also, do you know if the German Reform Church is "Lutheran"? This was > in 1870 in NJ > > Ella in Michigan > >