Source Information
Archive at Calvin College
Ancestry.com. U.S., Dutch Christian Reformed Church Membership Records, 1856-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.Original data: Christian Reformed Church Records. Archives of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.About U.S., Dutch Christian Reformed Church Membership Records, 1856-1970
This collection contains membership lists, transfer documents, family registers, and meeting minutes from the Christian Reformed Church of America. Most records are in English, some are in Dutch, and a few are in German. Details in the registers vary but may include the following:
- name
- address
- parents’ names
- congregation
- birth date
- baptism date
- children’s names (which may include birth, baptism, marriage, and similar data)
- date of transfer from one congregation to another
The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) traces its theological roots back to the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. A break with the Dutch Reformed Church led to the organization of the CRC in 1857 in Michigan.