Church Records
Although the collection focuses primarily on Southern Baptist materials, other
denominations are included. These records include original church conference
minutes, scrapbooks, church histories, organizational minutes, membership
records, financial records, and biographical information on pastors.
Baptist Records
The Special Collection Department offers the world's most complete resource
for Alabama Baptist records. The collection includes association records,
agencies, institutions, printed minutes of Alabama Baptist State Convention,
and printed minutes of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Map of the current associations of the Alabama
Baptist State Convention
Religious Newspapers and Periodicals
The Alabama Baptist- 1843 to present; Indexed by Samford University
Alabama Christian Advocate (Methodist)- MFP 2.5 - 1881-1989, 1892-1896, 1914, 1926-1928,
1931-1937, 1942-1949, 1951-1960
Methodist Christian Advocate- MFP2.5 - 1896-1913, 1915-1925, 1929-1930, 1938-1941
The Christian Advocate (Methodist)- MFP 4.5 - 1846-1861, 1869-1914
Methodist Episcopal church, South. Conferences. North Alabama -- 1899, 1931-1935, 1941-1949, 1951-1971
Methodist Episcopal church. Conferences. Alabama(Alabama-West Florida Journal)-- 1906,1913-1915,1919,1954-1956,1957-1970
One Voice(Catholic)- current subscription
The Southern Shofar (Jewish) - current subscription
Signs of the Times (Primitive Baptist)-- 1899; 1933; 1939; 1941; 1966-CURRENT
African American Baptist Association Collection
Records for Alabama
American Home Missionary Society Papers, 1816 - 1936
Correspondence and reports from teachers and missionaries to the Board.
(385 reels)
American Missionary Association Manuscripts
Records for Alabama (7 reels)
American Sunday School Union Papers, 1817 - 1915
Correspondence and reports of those establishing Sunday Schools. Includes data from the Sunday Schools. (234 reels)
American Papers of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1701 - 1711
Correspondence, reports from missionaries sent by the Church of England to the American colonies. (17 reels)
Baptist Missionary Society Archives(British)
Missionary journals and correspondence, 1792 - 1914 (37 reels)
Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary Papers
(5 reels)
Records of Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs
(19 reels)
Significant Manuscript Collections
