Patricia, My experience with the PHS: If you write the PHS they will tell you (1) if they have the church records and (2) they do not do research for you but will give you a list of local professional researchers knowledgeable with their holdings. I hired one for a reasonable fee with good results. Ten years later I visited them in person, they were extremely helpful Another possible source: During the 1930s depression the WPA did a make-work project of inventorying all church records. You can find their reports at major genealogy libraries and at LDS family history centers. It is old stuff but I got some leads from the reports. If any body is researching early Western Pennsylvania Presbyterian ministers I have a copy of History of Erie Presbytery, published1865, with biographies and parish histories. Will do look-ups. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Hickin" <pph929@gmail.com> To: <presbyterian@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [PRESBYTERIAN] Presbyterian Church Records > Wow -- thanks a million for this -- the lodgings link even includes some > cheapo options -- so RARE! > I guess the good old Scottish blood is still making its mark. Maybe I > can > even make a little trip this year -- since I'm turning decades in 2 > weeks -- > I'm hoping to have a more or less year-long observation! Cannot tell you > how very much I appreciate your post of linkto the PHS website which I'd > not looked at for a long time! > > Pat > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Bettie Sarver > <bsarver@hcecwildblue.com>wrote: > >> The Presbyterian Historical Society has the archived church records, IF >> the church sent them to them. Try this website to find out more: >> http://www.history.pcusa.org/research/ >> Bettie >> >> >New to list here. Please correct me if I do this incorrectly. >> >> >I'm looking for specific church marriage records. The couple I'm >> >searching were married in the Joliet Central Presbyterian Church in >> >1873. I know the church moved to New Lenox and I'm planning to >> >contact them. My question is: Is there a central archive for old >> >Presbyterian church records? >> >Patti Wilcox >> >Oregon >> _____________________________ >> To contact the list admin send an email to: >> PRESBYTERIAN-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PRESBYTERIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Pat > _____________________________ > To contact the list admin send an email to: > PRESBYTERIAN-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRESBYTERIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >