GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Tennessee: TN-1

Nativity Church
5955 St. Elmo Street
Bartlett, TN 38135-1516

Phone: 901-382-2504

Email: See website

 

The Church of the Nativity, Memphis, Tennessee, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish with some Native American (e.g. Cherokee, Shawnee) parishioners in the Diocese of Memphis (Archives: Memphis, Tennessee), 1970s-present.

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1970s-present

Volume: Few records

 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Nativity Church, Bartlett.

 

Unless noted otherwise, the repository named above holds (or held) the records described and not the Marquette University Archives. However, Marquette’s holdings, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, include related records about these Native and Catholic groups and places.

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