Artifact - A physical, tangible object. Not manuscripts (text-based items like letters, books, articles) or photographs. Example: Painted Wooden Episcopal Mitre
Church History - A document that contains information about the history of a church. It can be formal or infomal (a book or a handwritten essay). Example: Sapony Essay by Joe Patterson
Church Service Program - A document that gives details about a church service on a specific date(s). Can be about funerals, last services, sermons, etc. Example: Calvary Last Service Program
Congregational Membership Directory - A document that contains information about individual congregants such as addresses, baptisms, confirmation dates, etc. Example: Calvary Church Members List
Correspondence - A document that is a communication between people, groups, or entities like letters, emails, etc. Example: Letter to Mr. S.S. Young from Louise Tomlin
Financial or Budget Record - A document relating to finances or budgets. It can be formal or informal including treasurers reports, receipts, budget notes, calculations, etc. Example: Bath Parish Treasurer's Report
Interview - Example: Interview of Lonnie Hamilton III
Legal Record - A document concerning a legal matter, including documents concerning Canon Law. Example: Deed from W.M. & V.A Sterne to Trustees of Bath Parish Rectory and Canon XXIII of Abandoned Property
Major Buildings and Grounds Project - Example: Correspondence, J. Gilbert Somers to Calvary Episcopal Church
Membership List - An informal/unoffical document that lists the names of members of a congregation/church/group. Example: Sapony Last Service
Meeting Minutes - Example: Good Shepherd Minute Book of the Ladies Guild (1901-1906) and Attendance Record (1896-1911)
Miscellaneous Notes taken from Parish Register - Example: Sapony Church Parish List
Miscellaneous Records - A document that does not fit into any other type and is not taken from a parish register. Example: Calvary Church Marriage Notes
Newsletter - A document that consists of contemporaneous events, updates, stories, etc. from a particual organization, group, or event. Example: Church Stories Flyer for the Interview with the Rev. Joseph N. Green, Sr. and the Rev. Robert O. Johnston
Newspaper - Example: The Dinwiddie County News Vol. 1, Number 37
Parish or Church Register - A document that is in compliance with Title I, Canon 6.1.1, the Register of Church Membership and Rites. The document may contain space for recording historical data, rectors and vicars along with other ministers, baptisms along with a record of baptized members within a parish, confirmations and receptions, a summary of communicants, marriages, and burials within a parish. Example: Register of Bath Parish and St. Andrews Parish
Photograph - A file that is a digital photograph or a document that is a photograph. Example: Historic Photographic Print of Old Sapony Altar
Published Book - Example: The Story of Old St. Stephen’s (Petersburg, VA) by George F. Bragg, Jr.
Register of Church Services Conducted - A Register of Church Services is a book where officiants list day-by-day attendance at services and number of services held per day, including Sunday and Saturday services, weekday and private Daily Offices (Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Compline) and other services. Example: Sapony Register of Church Service
