Steve, I've done a lot of work with church records east of here in PA, DE and MD, and I was always told that if a church actually closed its doors than any church records had to be turned in. The Methodists are the hardest to find. Drew Universary and Seminary in NJ has many of their records, and I was told that St George in Philadelphia had some. In Baltimore you will find a regular archives for them. But I haven't looked in Huntingdon or Bedford Co. The Lutheran records from here I'm told are at Gettysburg Seminary. Presbyterian Records are in their Archives in Philadelphia. I have found the Brethren Church centers very helpful. Lots of Mennonite records in Lancaster, as also the old Evangelical and Reformed. I think the Reformed are also there. Episcipalian I believe have just arrangedto keep theirs at the Presbyterian Archives in Philly. I'm no expert on this, but am reporting what I have rad or been told. Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "kemp" <ayeh@pennswoods.net> To: <PAHUNTIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [PAHUNTIN] McConnellstown, PA > from Steve Kemp. There is an archives of the Central Pa. Conference of the > Methodist Church at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pa., not to > discourage you from going there, but it may be too much to hope for that > any records helpful to genealogists were preserved by Methodists in small > towns until fairly recent times... most church records were victims of > housecleaning and never archived > > > ==== PAHUNTIN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Huntingdon county PaGenWeb site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin for information on county resources, cemeteries and other research information. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >