At 11:04 PM 7/10/99 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >Friends, >I just found this site on the web. > >If you have an ancestor that you believe may have been a United Methodist >Clergy person or missionary you can place a query here: > >www.gcah.org/searching.htm > >The site says there is a fee for the search. They will also search for >Clergy and Missionaries of denominations that united to make the current >United Methodist Church. If this site is by Drew University, they will only look up "regularly-ordained" clergy (i.e. "circuit riders). In the South, there were many more lay clergy (clergy who had to meet fewer educational requirements and who were allowed to be married at the time of ordination). Conference Archives are more likely to have information on lay clergy. Elizabeth Whitaker