DeLories, Interesting question. No Church history charts in The Source. I've seen some churches in directories for UMC, listed as Primitive Methodist, but see no mention of Primitive history in the brief Church history given here: http://www.umc.org/genconf/history.html I did a quick Google search for Primitive Methodist and found a list of sites, but I don't have time now to scan them for an historical summary. It sounds from your description that it may well have been an English-American version of what seems to me to have been a Church of England revival (Methodist). I'm interested to read some more educated feedback on this. The Anglican, especially American, branches of Protestantism are, I'm sure, too complex to be explained in a chart which covers a small monitor screen size <G>, but I do have a very simplified chart of the general branches of Christianity, which I can scan from a book, just to show a small group of folks, if anyone is interested. Since it's copyright material I want to be respectful. On short notice, I only know of one nicely created chart showing church roots structure, splits, branches, etc., which is for the Scot Presbytery 1560-1929 (Calvinist). If anyone on the list knows of a similar one for the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Anglican), I'm sure that others would like to know of it. I'll also look through a PDF file I have which contains several pages of church charts, to see if they might be helpful and if there's a way I can share them. Di Church of Scotland chart: http://www.btinternet.com/~stnicholas.buccleuch/chart.htm#Splits Other 'church' related sites: Early American Church Denominations http://www.geocities.com/gentutor/churches.html Denomination & Church Affiliations with church Directory listings http://netministries.org/denomlst.htm APS Guide to Resources in Theology (Canadian University site) http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/theobook.htm CyndisList - Religion / Methodist http://www.CyndisList.com/religion.htm http://www.CyndisList.com/methodis.htm -- In a message dated 02/4/4 7:17:10 AM, JDVon@aol.com writes: << I was wondering if the United Methodist Church was once the Primitive Methodist Church? As my family help to start the Primitive Methodist Church in Grant CO., when they came over from England in the early 1800s. >>