Finding Your Quaker* Ancestors
* (The Religious Society of Friends)
Most Helpful Website for researching your Quaker ancestors: Quaker
Corner at Rootsweb. If you use Quaker records, you will need the "Glossary of Quaker Terms" published within that site.
Quaker.Org is the website for today's Religious Society of Friends, but it has a lot of historical and background material.
Ancestry Magazine article archived at Ancestry.com: "Quaker Records" by Maureen A. Taylor|; also at Ancestry.com is Kip Sperry's column "Quaker Records for Genealogists" nn
The Mary L. Cook Public Library published a helpful guide: "Friendly Research: An Introduction to Quaker Genealogy with a List of Internet Sources."
And for more links...Cyndi's List: Quaker
My Quaker Andestors
Binford ancestors | Moore ancestors
Books
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If you have ancestors who were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), you may want to spring for this book. It costs $20 and only covers the United States, but it serves as a good, basic reference. You can buy if from GPC, among other places. |
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Hinshaw's 6 volume Encyclopedia of Quaker Records is now available on CD and can be purchased from GPC, among other places. ($60.00) . This does not include the Indiana meetings, which are coved in Heiss's Abstract of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana. There are other meetings not covered in Hinshaw, some published separately.
GPC also sells an index to the 6 volume paper edition (you wouldn't need an index with the CD).
This set is available in most large libraries. |