Baptist Collection

I had a productive day at the GTU this week. I finished up the Suzuki box and began on a larger collection. This one is six boxes of records from the Baptist Conference. It is awesome being able to work with records this old, some go back to the 1850’s. I have never worked with records so old. The bound books of minutes in the secretary’s neat handwriting are great.

I am trying to work out the organizational structure of the organization. I am not a Baptist, so this is new to me. It looks like churches belong to associations and associations belong to conferences. Then there are committees for particular issues that may cross over conferences. I have begun putting subject headings on the files, and once I am more confident in the hierarchy I can begin arranging the files.