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-===Online Resources===
+Before 1900 the largest religious groups in Michigan were the '''Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches'''. <ref>Sydney E. Ahlstrom, ''A Religious History of the American People'' (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972). {{FHL|282712|item|disp=FHL Book 973 K2ah}}.</ref>
 *[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1111 U.S., French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1695-1954], ($), index<br><br>
 *{{RecordSearch|2787825|Michigan, Church Records, 1819-1991}} at [https://familysearch.org/search FamilySearch] — index
-Before 1900 the largest religious groups in Michigan were the Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches. Information about early churches, ministers, and circuits is in published histories of some of the churches of Michigan.<ref>Sydney E. Ahlstrom, ''A Religious History of the American People'' (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972). {{FHL|282712|item|disp=FHL Book 973 K2ah}}.</ref>
-The availability of Michigan church records is described in the Summer 1973 issue of Family Trails (see the "[[Michigan Periodicals|Periodicals]]" section). Other inventories of the church archives of several denominations, such as the Protestant Episcopal and Evangelical, have been published and are at the Family History Library.
-The Michigan Historical Records Survey, WPA, completed a series of denominational record lists called Inventory of the Church Archives of Michigan. Check for these records in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:
-MICHIGAN - CHURCH RECORDS - INVENTORIES, REGISTERS, CATALOGS.
-The library also has copies of a few small collections of original Michigan church records. Some original manuscripts and published abstracts are also in the Bentley Historical Collection at the University of Michigan (see[[Michigan Archives and Libraries|Michigan Archives and Libraries]] for the address).
-Many denominations have gathered their records into central repositories. You can write to the following addresses to learn where their records are located:
 ===Baptist===