by Nick Kersten | Apr 8, 2014 | Journal
In the February 2014 edition of the Sabbath Recorder (PDF version here, on page 14), the Historical Society’s column was devoted to a discussion of the mistakes often made with respect to the locations and names of our historical congregations in Rhode Island....
by Nick Kersten | Feb 28, 2014 | Featured, Journal
For many years, the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society has served genealogists with information about their SDB ancestors as we have had the resources and time to do so. Our dedication to this service came from the knowledge that our collection is the only one of...
by Nick Kersten | Oct 25, 2013 | Journal
As the Historical Society prepared the new edition of Don Sanford’s seminal work, A Choosing People, the SDB General Conference made it clear they wanted access to the book in formats beyond the typical hardcover book. Specifically, one of the requests...
by Nick Kersten | Aug 14, 2013 | Journal
The Ephrata Cloister is the historic site originally built by the German Seventh Day Baptist community founded by Conrad Beissel in 1732. German Seventh Day Baptists were (and are) doctrinally and theologically distinct from the larger General Conference of...
by Nick Kersten | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
In order to conduct scheduled maintenance, our catalog service provider has informed us that their servers will be unavailable on July 20, 2013 from approximately 7:30am to noon (12:00pm) Pacific time. The other services on our site, including the periodical index,...
