GENEALOGY RESOURCES
Church Records in Long Beach
Church Records in Long Beach
If your ancestors attended church in Long Beach in the early 1900s, they probably went to one of the "First" churches downtown: First Christian, First Congregational, First Methodist Episcopal, or First Presbyterian. First Congregational, at 3rd Street and Cedar Avenue, has many sermons, records, and historical documents available to researchers. Read about the history of First Congregational at
http://www.firstchurchlb.org/history.html.
As Long Beach’s population grew, people moved out to the suburbs and established churches there. One of these churches, Los Altos United Methodist, has bound volumes of their Sunday bulletins from the founding in 1954. These records are in the church library, and a few of the volumes are shown above. Read about LAUMC history at http://www.losaltosumc.org/history/.
Church records can be a valuable source for your genealogy. To access a tutorial about using them for research, go to http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/lesson17.htm.
RESEARCH TIP: We have become so used to the Google formula “area AND topic AND genealogy,” that we often forget to delete the “genealogy” part of the search term string and substitute something else to get better results. This is especially important when searching for church records because they are often archived at the denomination’s historical society or have wound up stored at a local library. If your Google search for church records includes “historical society” or “library” instead of “genealogy,” you will locate more information. For example: The Historical Society of The United Methodist Church at
http://www.historicalsocietyunitedmethodistchurch.org/genealogy/ lists predecessor denominations, gives examples of denominational newspapers like the Western Methodist, and offers a list of 8 tips for finding Methodist ancestors.
http://www.firstchurchlb.org/history.html.
photo: QHGS
Church records can be a valuable source for your genealogy. To access a tutorial about using them for research, go to http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/lesson17.htm.
RESEARCH TIP: We have become so used to the Google formula “area AND topic AND genealogy,” that we often forget to delete the “genealogy” part of the search term string and substitute something else to get better results. This is especially important when searching for church records because they are often archived at the denomination’s historical society or have wound up stored at a local library. If your Google search for church records includes “historical society” or “library” instead of “genealogy,” you will locate more information. For example: The Historical Society of The United Methodist Church at
http://www.historicalsocietyunitedmethodistchurch.org/genealogy/ lists predecessor denominations, gives examples of denominational newspapers like the Western Methodist, and offers a list of 8 tips for finding Methodist ancestors.
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