What records should be sent by congregation to the United Church Archives?
The Manual specifics that congregations are to send their inactive records to the appropriate repository. The Archives is interested in receiving the types of archival material identified in the left-hand column on this page. What records are not required by the United Church Archives? Not all the records created and received by a congregation have archival value. Specifically, the Archives does not need: • Records which are created by presbytery, conference, or national offices: for example, copies of presbytery or conference minutes. • Invoices and cancelled cheques. • Conference or national church publications. • Pulpit or family Bibles unless they contain important historical information not obtainable elsewhere. • Duplicate congregational materials. When should records be sent to the Archives? It is difficult to provide exact guidelines. A useful rule of thumb is that only records which are inactive or rarely consulted should be deposited in the Archives. The Archives staff provid
