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So far have found Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Catholics in mine. How about in yours?
I can't say too much cause I am just getting into this ansestry stuff but I do know my paternal grandfather came here from Ireland vis Canada and they were Anglican. My grandmother on dad's side the same but eventually became a Christian Scintist (long story) On my mom's side, catholic through and through. I think on dads side there were some Methodists as well. We were Episcopalians until a few years ago, now we are Lutheran.
My family is/was mostly dominated by Seventh Day Adventists on my maternal grandmother's side and Anglican (Church of England) on my maternal grandfather's side.
My mother however is Buddhist, and I consider myself a Humanist.
In my husband's family, his mother's family is Jewish, and his father's family are Catholic. He was raised as a Catholic but also now considers himself to be a Humanist.
All religions in our families considered, Seventh Day Adventism was probably the one I personally identified with the most while growing up, although I was baptised as an Anglican (my mother hadn't yet become a Buddhist when I was born).
My Dutch were Roman Catholic because there was no other church before the Reformation. Then came the Dutch Reformed Church. It was followed by Quaker, Baptist, Presbyterian and Christ Church before and after the RW. Then came Brethren and the DRC in the mid-1800s on my maternal side.
My paternal side starts with the Masonic Lodge in the RW followed by the theologian that was in Harvard's first graduation class, the Regicide Judges, thence Billy Graham, Universalist and Methodist.
For a mere heathen I have a long line of Deacon/lawyers and carpenters who settled communities, founded churches, and practiced law. .
Overwhelmingly Methodist-Episcopal, which I guess is what Methodists were before they totally split off from the Anglicans/Episcopals/C of E. till present.
"Methodist Episcopal" used to be the full, formal name of the denomination in America until the 1960s. About 1950 or so the M.E. Church north and the M.E. Church south (which had been divided over the issue of slavery) finally after 100 years merged back into one united body, and then about 1960 the Evangelical United Brethren joined them, and at that time the denomination changed its name to "United Methodist Church" which it's still called today. The word "Episcopal" originally meant "governed by Bishops".
Gotcha, thanks. I had thought "Episcopal," "Episcopalian," "Anglican," and "Church of England" were all the same, and Methodists just split off from them at some point. Guess not.
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