Calvin College - Heritage Hall

Banner Index

Index to
Anniversary, Birthday, Wedding, and Obituary
Announcements from The Banner
1996-2005

This index includes all anniversary, birthday, wedding, and obituary announcements published in The Banner, the official publication of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, for a ten year period. If the spouse was named in a notice, entries were made for both names. When the notices contained the data, women were listed under maiden names with names of spouse (or married names) added.

Each entry contains the name of the person and their place of residence on the first line, spouse or married name on the second line, type of notice and citation on the third line, and data beginning on the fourth line. Names were keyed in as published, with or without spaces, so that "DeVries" is in a different part of the list than "De Vries."

An effort was made to combine duplicate entries into one. Announcements prior to 2000 from both The Banner (back to 1867) and De Wachter (1867-1985) are available in hard copy card file in the Archives at Calvin College; these hard copies are not directly available via internet. Hard copy of all issues of The Banner is available in the Hekman Library, in the Archives, and other locations. Contact the Archives if you have questions crcarchives@calvin.edu.

Data were keyed in by volunteers Ed Gerritsen and Helen Meulink, and student assistants Kay Bykerk, Kristi DenBleyker, Nateisha DeCruz, Heather Guichelaar, and Susan Potter over the course of five years. The database currently contains 11,809 entries.

Richard H. Harms
database manager

The pdf lists of names are: