Source Information

Ancestry.com. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, U.S., United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library; New York, New York; Methodist Episcopal Church Records in New York City and vicinity.

About New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, U.S., United Methodist Church Records, 1775-1949

This collection consists of Baptism, Marriage, Birth, Death, and Membership records of Methodist Episcopal churches in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Materials include baptism registers, marriage registers, death registers, membership certificates and registers, minutes of meetings, church financial records, lists of seminary students and teachers, and more.

In them, you may find:

  • names
  • birth dates
  • marriage dates
  • death dates
  • spouse’s names
  • parents’ names
  • places where an event (baptism, marriage, death, burial, etc.) took place

For more information about Methodist Episcopal church records in New York, visit the New York Public Library website.