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Communicant lists can include a variety of information, but at a minimum give the names of church members who took communion on a specific date. |
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Not every church kept lists of communicants. You may find them among the records of churches whose founders originated in a German-speaking country, such as the Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed churches. |
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Many communicant lists group families together, state relationships, and ages. |
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A communicant list may be the only record that
gives the maiden surname of an ancestor's wife.
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