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Moravian Church Records

When I first began my teaching career, I had reached the lesson on using church records as a genealogical source. I was covering many different denominations, what type of records they kept, where the repositories for those records were etc, when a student raised his hand. "My ancestors were Moravian, are you going to cover Moravian records?" he asked. I smiled confidently and said, "You bet! Next class."

I had never heard of the Moravians!! But I promise you I knew quite a bit about them before the class met again!

Moravia is a region in Czchecoslovakia and the Moravian Church is a protestant denomination formed in Bohemia in 1457. They were called "Unity of Brethren". In 1722 the church was reorganized and became known as the Moravian Church.

Moravians moved to Pennsylvania in the early 1740's. The Moravians later purchased 10,000 acres of land in North Carolina and more Moravians began immigrating to this area in 1753.

Moravian church records are very similar to the records kept by the Quakers, which we covered in last week’s issue of this newsletter. Excellent records are kept of birth, marriage and death.

There are two headquarters for the Moravian Church, one for the North and one for the South. The North is at the Moravian Historical Society in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the South at The Moravian Church in North Carolina 224 S. Cherry St., Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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