{"id":6958,"date":"2018-05-20T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2018-05-20T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:31:28","slug":"ancestry-updates-elca-records-and-alters-database-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6958","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry Updates ELCA Records and Alters Database Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ancestry.com<\/em> recently indicated that they had updated their database which used to be titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">\u201cU.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] Church Records, 1826-1945\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0It now appears to be titled\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">\u201cU.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] Church Records, 1826-1969.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While researchers are always appreciative of additional records being added to a database, it&#8217;s frustrating when there is no details of these changes and when titles of published databases are changed. It is also a little frustrating when images are added to a database without any real indication of just what those images are. The ELCA database now includes something referred to as &#8220;pastoral acts&#8221; which can be accessed from the drop down menu on the main database page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6960\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts2.jpg 995w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts2-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts2-768x306.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The description of the ELCA records at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> does not appear to address these &#8220;acts.&#8221; Browsing the digitized images of the microfilmed records, they appear to be from the &#8220;Bureau of Service to Military Personnel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6959\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/elca-pastoral-acts.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Social Networks and Archival Context&#8221; website appears to have information on this same Council at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/snaccooperative.org\/ark:\/99166\/w67q36d7\">http:\/\/snaccooperative.org\/ark:\/99166\/w67q36d7<\/a>. The pastoral acts generally appear to have (based on my quick look through some images) been performed on or near military bases by military chaplains.\u00a0The &#8220;Pastoral Acts&#8221; appear to be sorted by year and alphabetical in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Comments from those who have additional clarifying information are welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com recently indicated that they had updated their database which used to be titled\u00a0\u201cU.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] Church Records, 1826-1945\u201d.\u00a0It now appears to be titled\u00a0\u00a0\u201cU.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] Church Records, 1826-1969.\u201d While researchers are always appreciative of additional records being added to a database, it&#8217;s frustrating when there is [&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-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","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=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}