{"id":6814,"date":"2018-05-05T21:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2018-05-05T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:21:51","slug":"swedish-american-church-records-1800-1946-at-ancestry-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6814","title":{"rendered":"Swedish American Church Records, 1800-1946 at Ancestry.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ancestry.com<\/em> recently announced the digital publication of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-11714212?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D61584\">U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America[ELCA], Swedish American Church Records, 1800-1946<\/a>.&#8221; This collection includes digital images of hundreds of congregations across the United States who had a Swedish ethnic heritage. Not all congregations are currently members of the ELCA.<\/p>\n<p>This database appears to index not just ministerial acts of baptism, death, and marriage, but also includes names in family registers. This is a marked improvement over other images\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> has of Lutheran church records in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The partial entry for the family of Samuel Otto Johnson from First Lutheran Church is typical. There can always be exceptions. This entry has the dates of birth, baptism, confirmation, and marriage for the individuals listed as well as their place of birth and year of arrival in the United States (for immigrants).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6815\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/johnson-samuel-otto-galesburg-first-lutheran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/johnson-samuel-otto-galesburg-first-lutheran.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/johnson-samuel-otto-galesburg-first-lutheran-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/johnson-samuel-otto-galesburg-first-lutheran-768x255.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/johnson-samuel-otto-galesburg-first-lutheran-1024x341.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would still suggest a manual browse of the records for any parish where your relatives were in attendance as there may be miscellaneous items included that did not get indexed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com recently announced the digital publication of &#8220;U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America[ELCA], Swedish American Church Records, 1800-1946.&#8221; This collection includes digital images of hundreds of congregations across the United States who had a Swedish ethnic heritage. Not all congregations are currently members of the ELCA. This database appears to index not just ministerial acts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}