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From: Elizabeth Whitaker <>
Subject: RE: Methodist ancestors
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:45:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20030515.105649.5837.67721@webmail10.lax.untd.com>


At 05:56 PM 5/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>I never thought to go through the umc site. The archive site has
>obituaries on all who were ministers when they retired. They didn't have
>mine, because he left the Methodist church. So it looks like both sites
>should be checked, because they might have different info.
>
>Doris

The umc site only offers CONTACT INFO. However, you can get information on
lay clergy (for example)
from conference archives.

GCAH, according to a letter I received from them when I first started doing
this, really
doesn't want to bother with lay preachers and other "non-regularly ordained"
Methodist clergy.

btw, if you do have Methodist clergy among your ancestors after about the
1860s, you
may be able to find info on them -- other than weddings and deaths -- in
the pages
of the conference's newspaper. The Southern Christian Advocate, the
newspaper of the
South Carolina conference, had a regular section on page five of news items
from and
about members of the regular clergy. I don't know when this was started and
don't know when it might have ended -- I'm not Methodist -- but I've found
items about
and by my greatgrandfather Whitaker in the 1880s and 1890s.

Elizabeth Whitaker
Easley, South Carolina



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