I'm a little confused, how did my name get on this email?  The only sentence I wrote was the last one!!! Brigitte -----Original Message----- From: Cecelia <cheinric@suddenlink.net> To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 5:20 pm Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Looking for Ancestors in Church Records I've been , and studied, them quite a bit in my lifetime. I was raised in a Methodist-Episcopal church, that was pretty formal. reat-grandparents from Prussia to Texas were Lutheran, but went to the piscopalian church when the Lutheran church burned. Some of their children emained in the Episcopalian church, but, the ones who had children, joined he Methodist church. hen, when I married, I joined the Lutheran church because my husband nsisted he was Lutheran. Turned out he had never been to any church. His arents were Catholic, and lived way out in the country. When his mother anted my husband to be christened, she had a ride to the Lutheran church, ut not to the Catholic Church. So, that's where he was christened and the nly time he ever went to a church. I went through all that studying to ecome Lutheran, then found out later! After the divorce, the new Lutheran inister came to me and told me to not come back to his church. I didn't ave a job, and they wanted my ex to come as he would be giving money to the hurch, and I couldn't. I had to drag the man to church to make him go, so don't know how that worked out. I am still astonished by that incident. fter that, every time I went into a Lutheran church, I became physically ll and had to leave. hen, I became interested in the Catholic church, so I studied that and onverted. I had been interested for a while as I liked services that were ormal and mysterious and beautiful, classical music. I was disappointed in ll the changes that made it more like the Lutheran church and the ethodist-Episcopal church. fter my son was killed, I moved in with my parents, where there was no atholic church. So, I ended up going back to the Methodist church. ow that should really fool future researchers! My children and I are in so any different church records across Texas! found very little difference in the Lutheran and Methodist-Episcopal hurches. The only difference I noticed was that the Luterhans would kneel nd Methodists don't. There were many similarities in both churches to the atholic church, as well. 'm sure that ancestors in other countries didn't move around and change ives like I have, but I would imagine that some did. That might help some eople as they search. Be open to various possibilities. ecelia in Texas > GOSH - I almost hate to get involved here - but think some explanations are due. > Thru the years the Lutheran church has changed - just as have many of the other churches. Some for the better, some for the worst. ELCA - EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA - is just one type of Lutheran Church and probably least like the Catholic church. There are many different Lutheran churches, Wisconsin Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod - American Lutheran Church - and these are just in the US - other countries have their own - just like there are many different Baptist and Methodist churches. ELCA is just one type of Lutheran church. > > chances are if you have Lutherans in your family, you probably have Catholics also. Many of the more traditional Lutherans are more comfortable in a Catholic church than in many of our more modern denominations. just my thoughts - only been Lutheran for half a century. Don't be surprised to find both Catholic and Lutherans in your family. Be safe and look at both! Brigitte ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.