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CHURCH RECORDS

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH RECORDS FOR NORTH DAKOTA (OGL #849), include congregational and council minutes as well as ministerial records for 333 congregations in 209 cities and towns in North Dakota dating from approximately 1871 to 1977. The ministerial records register baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials.

The Guide to American Lutheran Church Records for North Dakota accesses the records by providing an alphabetical listing of post offices. Also included are names of congregations, synod, county, type of record, and microfilm roll number.
BX8041 .46

RECORDS OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHES - BESSARABIA, RUSSIA (OGL #850) date from 1817 to 1939 and include microfilmed family group records from Bessarabian churches listed alphabetically.

NORTH DAKOTA CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS (OGL #902)- Include microfilmed 1908 questionnaires completed by parishes within Fargo and Bismarck Dioceses. Besides church building construction and parish history, noteworthy parishioners are mentioned.

Humling, Virginia. U.S. Catholic Sources: A Diocesan Research Guide. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1995.
CD3065 .H86 1995

White, Jeanne Sauve. Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records. Baltimore, MD: Printed for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.
F1052 .W4 1993



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