3,650 Free Southern States Online Church Records

The Ancestor Hunt regularly adds and updates new collection links, as well as searches for and fixes broken links.
(This page's most recent update is March 2025)

Another underutilized genealogy resource is Church Records. We tend to focus our research on civil records but need to be aware that often church records pre-date civil records and are also a great resource. In the BMD Records section of this website, about 15,000 collections of civil records are available online. Yes, that’s a lot, but we also need to search church records.

What can we find in church or synagogue records? Here’s just a short list of what nuggets we can find:

Baptisms and Christenings
Marriages
Deaths
Burials
Confirmations
Membership lists
Church Minutes
Church Directories
Transfer Letters
Bar or Bat Mitzvahs
Sunday School lists
Church newsletters

In addition, many folks also documented important events in family bibles, so they need to be searched as well if the event information has been digitized.

Here are a couple of articles that you might find useful:

There is a large number of Free Online Church Record collections; the links for each state in the region are below:

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