If they were actual members of the Moravian church the records kept by the church in the Archives at Salem (here in Winston-Salem, NC) are very thorough and wonderful. The Moravians, good Germans as they were, recorded everything meticulously. Richard Starbuck at the Moravian Archives can be contacted and hired to look for your ancestors in the records. However, if they only lived in or near the Moravian communities they won't be in the records unless they had children baptised by the Moravians (as my ancestors who were not Moravian did) or if they were visited by Rev. Soelle a traveling Moravian minister who ministered to the outlying communities to the Non-Moravians, making converts and keeping a dairy of everything he did, day by day. These diaries have been preserved and translated into English by Adelaide Fries and are in a ten volume book form at the Forsyth County library in the NC Room (the genealogy room) and also are at the Moravian Archives and probably at the Rowan County library in Salisbury and perhaps other places as well. I know my ancestors in Surry Co. that became Yadkin Co. are recorded in them. Susan Gall Winston-Salem, NC On Fri, 27 May 2005 09:05:18 -0500 "Rose Green" <[email protected]> writes: > Okay, now that I have had the chance to read about the history of the > > Wachovia settlement, I have another question. What kind of records > did > these people keep of their members? Has anyone traced their people > with > church records? Am I correct in thinking them a kind of Anabaptist > (not > baptizing infants)? Would they have membership records that are now > > available to researchers? > > Thanks! > > Rose Green > researching WELKER, FLETCHER > > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from RowanRoots-L send a message from the address you > subscribed from to [email protected] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. > > >

Just to add to this informative message, the Moravian archives can be found online and you can request a search of the records online as well. My family was English but several married Moravians, some converted to this faith while others just had their children baptized by Moravians. The Moravians were very happy to welcome non members to their church services and baptized children who were of other faiths. Thus my non-Moravian family has many entries in Adelaide Fries' multivolume book set, plus you might discover that some of your non-Moravian family married Moravians; if so there will be many records of that family. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:24 AM Subject: [RowanRoots] Unidentified subject! > If they were actual members of the Moravian church the records kept by > the church in the Archives at Salem (here in Winston-Salem, NC) are very > thorough and wonderful. The Moravians, good Germans as they were, > recorded everything meticulously. Richard Starbuck at the Moravian > Archives can be contacted and hired to look for your ancestors in the > records. However, if they only lived in or near the Moravian > communities they won't be in the records unless they had children > baptised by the Moravians (as my ancestors who were not Moravian did) or > if they were visited by Rev. Soelle a traveling Moravian minister who > ministered to the outlying communities to the Non-Moravians, making > converts and keeping a dairy of everything he did, day by day. These > diaries have been preserved and translated into English by Adelaide Fries > and are in a ten volume book form at the Forsyth County library in the NC > Room (the genealogy room) and also are at the Moravian Archives and > probably at the Rowan County library in Salisbury and perhaps other > places as well. I know my ancestors in Surry Co. that became Yadkin Co. > are recorded in them. > > Susan Gall > Winston-Salem, NC > > > On Fri, 27 May 2005 09:05:18 -0500 "Rose Green" <[email protected]> > writes: >> Okay, now that I have had the chance to read about the history of the >> >> Wachovia settlement, I have another question. What kind of records >> did >> these people keep of their members? Has anyone traced their people >> with >> church records? Am I correct in thinking them a kind of Anabaptist >> (not >> baptizing infants)? Would they have membership records that are now >> >> available to researchers? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Rose Green >> researching WELKER, FLETCHER >> >> >> >> ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from RowanRoots-L send a message from the address you >> subscribed from to [email protected] with the word >> unsubscribe in the message body. >> >> >> > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from RowanRoots-L send a message from the address you > subscribed from to [email protected] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. > >