Yes, please do link. And thanks,
Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: Tina S Vickery <tsvickery(a)adelphia.net>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] History of the Lutheran Church
Linda,
May I add this link to the Wisconsin Resources? Do any of you have other
statewide Church/Denomination Resources to add to this page?
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/resources.html
Great Job, Linda!
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard and Linda Scheimann <gebhard(a)niia.net>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: [WIGEN-L] History of the Lutheran Church
> For an idea of how the Lutheran church bodies in America have formed and
> merged over the last century, you might look here:
>
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwashin/historyevluth.htm
>
> I wrote this essay to try to help explain why the church you are seeking
may
> not be affiliated with the same Synod now as it was when your ancestors
were
> recorded there.
>
> I agree that with a Scandinavian name, it's most likely your ancestors
> originally belonged to one of the Synods which merged to the ALC
(American
> Lutheran Church) by the 1960's, and from there to the larger
ELCA merger
in
> the 1980's.
>
> Do you know where they lived in Chicago (street address or ward)?
Sometimes
> the easiest way to find a church is to locate the people and then look
> around in an old city directory to see which parishes were nearby.
>
> The trouble with Lutheran central archives is that Lutheran
congregations
> are autonomous, and control their own records. This gets more
complicated
> when congregations merge: old records do not always come with
the
merger,
> and sometimes end up in private hands instead. A central synod
can
encourage
> congregations to copy historical records for them and share them, but
cannot
> demand that the congregations do this. It's not the same as in the
Catholic
> church, where the Archdiocese retains copies of all the records within
its
> jurisdiction.
>
> Linda Scheimann
>
> Linda Scheimann
> Co-Coordinator, Washington Co. WIGenWeb Project
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwashin/
>
>
>
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>
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