Conference Archives

The Historical Society of the United Methodist Church offers information and guidelines on researching ancestors with ties to the Methodist Church.

Local Church Archives

Resources for church archivists

• Guidelines 2005-2008 Church Historian: Remembering the past and inspiring the future, by Janice Christian; published by Abingdon Press, 2004, ISBN 0687001900. (Cokesbury)
• Guidelines for Managing Records of the Annual Conference and the Local Church, 2005 edition, the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church
• The General Commission on Archives and History
• The Historical Society of the United Methodist Church
• The current president, the Rev. Patricia Thompson, is a member of the New England Annual Conference serving at the Puffer-Morrisville United Methodist Church in Vermont.
• The World Methodist Historical Society