by William Wade Hinshaw originally published by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, originally
published between 1936 and 1950, contains approximately 500,000 entries,
each volume with a separate surname index. Almost no class of records, religious or secular,
has been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries
of American history and testify to a general movement of population that
extended from New England and the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia,
the Carolinas, and Georgia; then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The
importance of these records cannot be overstated. Not until recently have
the vital statistics of Quakers been recorded in civil record offices.
Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept asmeticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends(Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries of American history andtestify to a general movement of population that extended from New England andthe Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia;then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The importance of these records cannotbe overstated. Not until recently have the vital statistics of Quakers beenrecorded in civil record offices. Thus, for more than two centuries, the onlyvital records identifying these people are to be met with in the Quaker recordsthemselves. Fortunately, the monthly meeting records contain extensive lists ofbirths, marriages, and deaths, as well as details of the removal of members fromone meeting to another. Painstakingly developed from these monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker genealogy. In its production, thousands of records were located and abstracted into a uniform and intelligible system of notation. The data gathered in these volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by family name, and chronologically thereunder. Volume 1: NORTH CAROLINA Volume II: NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA Volume III: NEW YORK Volume IV: OHIO Volume V: OHIO Volume VI: VIRGINIA. If as the publisher suggests, 50% of our pre-1850 US ancestors were Quaker, than every researcher needs a personal copy of each and every Volume! |
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