BOSTON – The history of the Congregational Church is the history of Colonial New England. Before the birth of the nation and the separation of church and state, the plain Congregational churches that ...

For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia. Many are not aware that black history ...

Finding out about your Church of Ireland ancestors is about to become significantly easier, as their library has been awarded a €100,000 Government grant to digitise their records. The grant will ...

In 1891, George Bradshaw and Mary Manning got married at St. Mary’s Church in Waltham. Thanks to marriage records kept by the church, we can follow Mary’s journey from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to her new ...

The handwriting is cramped, the entry in barely-legible Latin on the yellowing pages of a sacrament register for the year 1814: “15th Baptisavi Miriam filial Roberti Bankhead et Catherinae Magee natum ...

Does your Irish family have links to the Church of Ireland? You could find out more about their past with the help of newly digitized records. One of the wonders of the digital age is how the ability ...

Church records of an old congregation in south Colton played a prominent role in one of the greatest frauds ever attempted in the history of the West. And those church records also helped authorities ...

There’s no better place online to research your Irish family history than Findmypast, and central to this incredible resource are Irish parish records, the details of millions of live meticulously ...

Jane Landers receives funding from National Endowment for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation American Council of Learned Societies John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Historic S. Augustine ...