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Online Resources[edit | edit source]
Before 1900 the largest religious groups in South Dakota were the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal, and Congregational churches.[1] The Family History Library has very few church records from South Dakota, but it has histories for some denominations.
Missions[edit | edit source]
St. Francis
Many denominations have collected their records in central repositories. You can write to the following addresses to learn where their records are located:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)[edit | edit source]
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Early, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church records for South Dakota Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the FamilySearch Catalog. Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.
Congregational[edit | edit source]
Congregational Library
14 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 523-0470
Fax: (617) 523-0470
E-mail: jsteytler@14beacon.org
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
(Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Archives)
8765 West Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631-4198
Phone: (773) 380-2818
E-mail: info@elca.org
Many of their records can be borrowed for a small fee. For a list of the church records in their collection, see FHL Collection fiche 6330690-93.
Odessa3.org - This site contains German-Russian emigrant ancestry in pocket settlements in mid-west states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska . Contains transcribed minutes of meetings, membership lists (some with parentage listed), birth, deaths, and marriages.]
Methodist[edit | edit source]
Dakotas Conference
United Methodist Church
1331 West University Boulevard
Mitchell, SD 57301
Phone: (605) 996-6552
Fax: (605) 996-1766
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 460
Mitchell, SD 57301
Episcopal[edit | edit source]
The Diocese of South Dakota
500 South Main Avenue
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
57104-6814
Phone: (605) 338-9751
Fax: (605) 336-6243
Roman Catholic[edit | edit source]
Diocese of Rapid City
606 Cathedral Drive
Rapid City, SD 57709
Phone: (605) 343-3541
The diocese includes the counties of: Bennett, Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Gregory, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Jones, Lawrence, Lyman, Meade, Mellette, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon, Stanley, Todd, Tripp and Ziebach
Diocese of Sioux Falls
523 N. Duluth Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Phone: (605) 334-9861
The diocese includes the counties of: Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Marshall , McCook, McPherson, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Potter, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Sully, Turner Union, Walworth and Yankton
A dissertation about the history of the Catholic Church is Mary Claudia Duratschek, The Beginnings of Catholicism in South Dakota (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1943; FHL book 978.3 K2dand FHL film 1036266 item 4
Additional Online Resource:[edit | edit source]
- South Dakota Churches - http://www.churchangel.com/southdak.htm'[1]'
This website is a great one in that you simply click on the town that your are looking for church records in, and a list will come up with the current churches in that city (including contact information: address, phone number, etc. In many towns there were churches that our ancestors might have attended, which are no longer "active" churches, but by contacting the churches that are currently functioning, we might be able to find information on where those records might be. You might also find it helpful to check the neighboring towns for churches that your ancestors might have attended. It is likely that if a church of their faith was not held in their town, they might have traveled a little to the next town, if the distance was not too far. Finding the church your ancestors attended might very well help in finding their cemetery records as many church members were buried in their church's cemetery.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ William Chamberlin Hunt and United States Bureau of the Census, Religious Bodies: 1906 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910), Vol. 1:353. Digital version at Google Books.
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