Church Confirmation Database
Last updated November 3, 2024
Our Confirmation database currently contains 4,133 records from 1925 through 1973, for the following Churches:
Good Shepherd Lutheran | English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension
Diocese of Brooklyn, Diocesan Archives
The
Diocesan Archives contains nearly 8,000 cubic feet of records,
including records of closed schools and parishes. This database includes
the records of the following churches:
Our Lady of Mercy (1858-1920) was located at Schermerhorn Street, near Bond Street, Brooklyn 459 records.
St. Ann Church, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY (1860-1986). Located at 251 Front Street at the corner of Gold Street. 492 records.
St. Joseph's Home for Girls, Kissena Boulevard and Sanford Avenue. Also known as St. Joseph's Academy. Originally built as St. Thomas Hall, later St. Joseph's Convent. 207 records.
St. Monica Church, Jamaica, Queens, NY (1848-1973). Located at 160th Street. Built in 1856.1,664 records.
The
Diocesan Archives does not charge a fee for sacramental records needed
for church use. We do ask for a donation of at least $25 to cover the
cost of staff time to research all other requests. Please make your
check or money order payable to the ‘R.C. Diocese of Brooklyn’. Send
your request using the "Brooklyn Diocese Request Form" on the search results page or on the Diocesan Archives web page to the following mailing address:
R.C. Diocese of Brooklyn
Office of the Archivist
310 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Note:
If you are not the individual whose record is being requested please
provide proof of death if the person is deceased or power of attorney if
the person is still living.
The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Francis Lewis Boulevard at 100th Avenue
Bellaire (Queens), NY 11429
The
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Bellaire, Queens, New York was
organized April 1, 1925. The cornerstone for their church building was
laid on September 20, 1925. Due to changing demographics in Bellaire,
the congregation disbanded, holding their last service on September 9,
1973. In 1973 the congregation merged with the Abiding Presence Lutheran
Church in Fort Salonga, Long Island, and the organ and stained glass
windows were moved there. The Good Shepherd church register is now
located at the Abiding Presence Lutheran Church.
The records in this index include: Confirmations 1925 - 1973
The register entries include much additional information such as birth & baptism dates and parents’ names.
All
requests for records of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church must be in
writing (a form is available following a successful search). A donation of at least five dollars ($5.00) is requested
(payable to Abiding Presence Lutheran Church) for each individual
genealogical record for which they are asked to search. You will receive
a scanned image of the register entry. Please send your request along
with a self-addressed, stamped envelope (or an email address if you
would like to receive the results that way) to the following address:
Good Shepherd Record Request
Abiding Presence Lutheran Church
4 Trescott Path
Fort Salonga, NY 11768
The English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension
Boro Park, Brooklyn, New
York
The
church was located at Thirteenth Ave and Fifty First Street, in Boro
Park, Brooklyn, New York. This database holds the following records:
Confirmations 1909 - 1952, 214 records
When writing, please give as much information as possible along with the
book number, page and entry number, which can be found in the search
results for this database. A form for this purpose can be downloaded by
clicking the “Documents & Forms” button that will appear directly
after your search results.
We will provide an image of
the original hand-written church register. You must include an e-mail
address so we can send a digital image of the record, which will enable
you to enlarge it for viewing.
If you find a record of interest, send a written request with a donation check payable to German Genealogy Group of $3.00 for each record requested to:
German Genealogy Group
ATTN: Record Request
P.O. Box 1004
Kings Park, NY 11754-1004
As
part of our Heritage Preservation Program, members of the German
Genealogy Group have spent many hours computerizing indices to the
various church records on this web site. We are grateful to the Pastors
of the Churches for allowing us to make these indexes available to
genealogists all over the world.
If you would like to contribute time to other current
Heritage Preservation projects, please contact us by clicking here.
Records Search: Confirmations
Please note that the Surname (e.g. Last Name) is a required entry field. But since exact spellings are not always known, to aid your search we offer three different ways to specify Surnames...
- Exact Match ("is exactly") - This is the default surname search method.
- Soundex ("sounds like") - This option enables you to specify a surname spelling it out as best you can, and it will return results that "sound" similar to what you spelled out.
- Wild Card - With this option you can replace part of the surname with a * to match any number of letters, or _ to match a single letter. So for example, Sch* will return all names starting with Sch. Similarly, Schl_tz might return results such as Schlitz or Schlotz.
NOTE: The wild card option applies ONLY to the surname. You can just enter the first few letters of a First Name; the search automatically adds a wild card to the end of the First Name.
For whichever of the above surname search options you would like to use, simply select the appropriate radio button option below the input field on the form. Although the additional form fields are optional, providing as much information as you can helps narrow your search. The more specific your search, the less time you need spend scrolling through search results!
Check the Database "About" tab to see how to obtain copies of the records.
The German Genealogy Group wishes to thank all the following Volunteers for their help and participation....
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd project:
Mark Waldron * Don Eckerle
