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Show Genealogy begins with U origin have been microfilmed. These have been placed on indefinite loan with the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College, Rock Island, 111. "Information about our church and its records which may be helpful to your readers, is found in our 1977 'Preserving Yesterday for . Tomorrow: A Guide to the Archives of the LCA'." "Ancestor line is brought to you as a public service of the Iron County Record. Any questions, queries, or information should be directed to "Ancestor Line" P.O. Box 1568. Cedar City, Utah 84720. Few people think of the chamber of commerce as I a vast depository of I genealogical records. This may surprise many when we call the I chamber of commerce our fifth principle of genealogical research. The information you can obtain from the chamber of commerce is very good for developing leads and tracking down further information. When you write to the chamber of commerce ask lor information on schools, housing districts, churches and a map of the area and a telephone book if possible. Locate all of the schools, colleges and universities. II you know which schools your relatives went to, write them and ask lor any information about your relatives they may have. ( (nee you have obtained a map. locate where your relatives lived. Here, you may have to refer to the courthouse records (wills or deeds ). Afteryouhave established where they lived you need to ask the lollowing question. Did your relatives live in a rural or urban? If they were rural, you may want to draw a lour mile radius circle around their house. Most all of their daily business i including going to church) would transpire tran-spire inside of this circle. II you know what religious preference they were, then write for information in-formation about this at the church of this persuasion per-suasion nearest to them. Invariably churches tranditionally have kept records much longer than any political entity in this country. Using what we have just learned, always start with the nearest church first. Alter obtaining a telephone book, look up all the surnames of your relatives which lived in that area. If you find any people living there today with the same surname contact them for additional ad-ditional family information. in-formation. Remember to file all information in your folders. Next week we will discuss further on what type of information you may obtain from our sixth principle, church records. ANCESTOR LINE Are you looking lor information on the Hudson Family Name? If so, a good source of information will be Hudson Family Association, Rt. 7, Del Monte Place, Longview, Texas 75601. The association publishes two quarterlies, "Bulletin" and "Hudsoniana." The bulletin presents genealogy, while Hudsoniana Hud-soniana is their newsletter in which colonial genealogical data appears as space permits. The genealogical records of the UFA are in charge of the genealogy director. Most of this data is on 8 '4 x 11 inch pages in three-, ring binders. They now have more than 100 of these binders, each with about 160 pages of Hudson data. Joel W. Lundeen, associate archivist, Lutheran Church in America, 1100 E. 55 St., Chicago, 111. 60615,, writes to tell "The Lutheran Church in America has no library or central depository for information about in-divudal in-divudal church members. I have some records here, mostly for Illinois, Iowa and Indiana areas. Hut. lor these, one must begin by name of congregation or geographical location. Sometimes the name of a clergyman officiating at a baptism, wedding or funeral will be of help. In our church, congregational records are usually retained in existing congregations. 'In the case of disbanded congregations, the records are supposed to be deposited in synod li.e. regional) depositories. My office, however, attempts to serve us a reference source lor such records. Mast of the records of congregtions of Swedish |