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One of the tasks of the Archives Committee is to examine records of the Pastoral Charges. 

The records are examined for each congregation over a 3 year cycle.

For guidelines for recording and keeping minutes, click here.

For a sample of minutes, click here.

 

United Church Archives Online

The United Church Archives database and Graphics database are now available online.

Click for links to search the online databases .

For information about keeping records in the United Church of Canada, see page 9 of Guidelines for Record Keeping.

 

Records required for review
by the Archives Committee:
(Pastoral Charge & Congregation)

  1. Board of Trustees Minute Book

  2. Registers of Baptisms, Marriages, & Burials

  3. Congregational Historic Membership Roll

  4. Congregational Minute Books

  5. Session Minute Books

  6. Committee of Stewards Minute Books

  7. Official Board Minute Books
    or the equivalents thereof.

 

Ontario Congregations' Records Accessible Online

Congregational records from Bay of Quinte, Hamilton, London, Manitou, and Toronto Conferences are now searchable online to the file level.

The Archives database is available here:
http://archives.united-church.ca/archives.htm

Use a keyword search, or choose the advanced search option, to find the congregation you are interested in. Click “view full record” and look for the blue link to the finding aid. Click this and you’ll see a finding aid, just as if you were in our reading room.
 

Schedule for Review
by the Archives Committee

Presbytery representatives are asked to bring records to the monthly meeting of Presbytery on the scheduled month. 

Click here for the schedule

 

 
     

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