n.a record of membership, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials and/or other ritesGersack 1963a, 285Mrs. Robert B. L. Taylor, who became archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas on January 1, 1962, has recently acquired 58 old parish registers, service books, and account books.Kyvig 1975, 511Historians interested in the American family during the seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth centuries have gleaned information of value from tax and probate records, Puritan literature, diaries, parish registers, genealogies, travelers’ accounts, newspapers, city directories, and, perhaps most frequently, census records.Kreneck 1985, 281Although crucial in documenting the Mexican American past, church records have proven to be a disappointing area in HMRC’s [Houston Metropolitan Research Center] collecting strategy. Houston’s Hispanic churches date from 1911 with the establishment of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, and the majority of Mexican Americans historically have been of the Roman Catholic faith. Because the parish registers are of such recent origin, officials of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston have been reluctant to allow microfilming of these records for general research purposes at HMRC.