Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records

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Genealogical Publishing Com, 1987 - Biography & Autobiography - 136 pages
 

Contents

Introduction
13
Background And History Of The Religious Society Of Friends
17
Organization Of The Religious Society Of Friends
27
Patterns Of Migration And Expansion
35
Contents Of Monthly Meeting Records
45
Locating And Searching Monthly Meeting Records
55
Quaker Records And Some Possible Problems
65
Quaker Repositories For Records
73
Appendices A Important Dates In The Quaker Movement with years of establishment of yearly meeting
107
Appendices B Table Of Contents from Volume II of Hinshaws Encyclopedia
109
Appendices C Records from a Hicksite Meeting from Volume II of Hinshaws Encyclopedia
110
Appendices D Records from an Orthodox Meeting from Volume II of Hinshaws Encyclopedia
111
Appendices E Abbreviation used in Hinshaws Encyclopedia
112
Appendices F Maps Of Meeting Locations
114
Appendices G Presentday Yearly Meetings
119
Notes
123

Historical Societies And Libraries With Quaker Material
85
Quaker Records Outside The United States
91
Other Nonquaker Sources For Records
97
Pleasures And Frustrations
101
Glossary
125
Bibliography
129
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Page 130 - A Collection of Memorials Concerning Divers Deceased Ministers and Others of the People Called Quakers, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Parts Adjacent, from Nearly the First Settlement Thereof to the Year 1787, with Some of the Last Expressions and Exhortations of Many of Them; also an Alphabetical Index.

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