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==What Church Records Are== | ==What Church Records Are== | ||
*Church records are a valuable source for proving the dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths and the | *Church records are a valuable source for proving the dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths and the identity and relationships of family members. Births are verified by infant christening/baptism records. Marriages were performed by churches and burial records verify deaths. Some countries organized information in family registers, much like a family group sheet. | ||
*Church records are extremely important for documenting births, marriages, and deaths that took place before government or civil registration began. In some regions, it was also common for the local church records to function in the role of government civil registries. | *Church records are extremely important for documenting births, marriages, and deaths that took place before government or civil registration began. In some regions, it was also common for the local church records to function in the role of government civil registries. | ||
*Particularly outside the U.S. church records can contain financial account books, (they record charges for toll bells, fees for masses for the dead, and so on), lists of confirmation, penance register, communion lists, lists of members and the family register. | *Particularly outside the U.S. church records can contain financial account books, (they record charges for toll bells, fees for masses for the dead, and so on), lists of confirmation, penance register, communion lists, lists of members and the family register. | ||
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