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February 04, 1999

Shaking Your Family Tree, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G.

Searching for Quakers', Indians' and Intruders' Ancestors

by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G.

If you are able to trace your family in America back into the 18th century, you are likely to have some Quaker ancestry. Lucky you, genealogically speaking, if you find some Quakers perched upon thy family tree. For almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends -- known as Quakers.

These records span three centuries of American history and range from New England and the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, and then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details about the removal of members from one meeting to another. The latter often enables a researcher to trace ancestors from one locality to another.

William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy contains more than a half-million entries. It was published in six volumes at an original cost of $440, and is now available on CD for $59.99. Additionally, the CD has an every-name index to all six volumes -- a feature the print version does not have. Each volume of the print version has a separate surname index, which can make research in all of these volumes rather cumbersome and tedious.

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, a GPC/Broderbund CD, is available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202, (800) 296-6687, ($63.49 postpaid). More information about this CD, including descriptive material about each of the volumes, can be found at GPC's new bookstore website: http://www.genealogybookshop.com

In order use this new CD, you need a CD-ROM drive and must have Family Tree Maker Version 3.02 or higher (for Windows or for Power Macintosh), or the Family Archive Viewer 3.02 for Windows (item 7590). The latter is free from Genealogical Publishing, upon request, with the purchase of any of its Family Archive CDs -- produced in collaboration with Broderbund Software.

Libraries and those who own all or some the printed volumes of "Encyclopedia" may want to acquire the recently published Index to Hinshaw's. It is a single alphabetical sequence of the names found therein. Each entry in this index contains the surname and given name and the volume number and page number where the name can be found. Index to Hinshaw's (8 1/2'' x11''; 1,155 pages, paperback) is also available from the publisher ($98.50 postpaid).

STAR BREAK

Researching in Oklahoma?

Indians and Intruders Volume III, (120 pages, 8 1/2'x11'' paperback; $22.50 postpaid) compiled by Sharron Standifer Ashton is now available. (Ashton Books, 3812 Northwest Sterling, Norman, OK 73072- 1240; e-mail: sjoashton@aol.com

This volume is another of a continuing series of much-needed abstracted records pertaining to ancestors -- red, white, and black -- who lived in Indian Territory (now eastern Oklahoma) prior to Oklahoma's statehood in 1907.

Material includes abstracts of:

Creek Indian Light Horsemen (warrants issued, 1869). Cherokee Civil War Claims Index (more than 400 individual claims for personal property losses). Chickasaw Nation Citizenship Records (1896-1897). Our Brothers in Red, Methodist newspaper Indian Territory News, January 1890-May 1891. Early Choctaw Mission Students (in Mississippi in 1823). Choctaw Nation Court Records, Blue County, 1852-1858. Indian Captives in the Southwest, Kiowa Indian Agency, 1870-1872.

(c) 1999, Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Myra Vanderpool Gormley and Julie Case are co-editors of Missing Links, a free weekly genealogy e-zine. To subscribe, send your request to: Missing Links Newsletter

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February 04, 1999
	Searching for Quakers', Indians' and Intruders' Ancestors by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, C.G.
If you are able to trace your family in America back into the 18th century, you are likely to have some Quaker ancestry. Lucky you, genealogically speaking, if you find some Quakers perched upon thy family tree. For almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends -- known as Quakers. These records span three centuries of American history and range from New England and the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, and then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details about the removal of members from one meeting to another. The latter often enables a researcher to trace ancestors from one locality to another. William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy contains more than a half-million entries. It was published in six volumes at an original cost of $440, and is now available on CD for $59.99. Additionally, the CD has an every-name index to all six volumes -- a feature the print version does not have. Each volume of the print version has a separate surname index, which can make research in all of these volumes rather cumbersome and tedious. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, a GPC/Broderbund CD, is available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202, (800) 296-6687, ($63.49 postpaid). More information about this CD, including descriptive material about each of the volumes, can be found at GPC's new bookstore website: http://www.genealogybookshop.com In order use this new CD, you need a CD-ROM drive and must have Family Tree Maker Version 3.02 or higher (for Windows or for Power Macintosh), or the Family Archive Viewer 3.02 for Windows (item 7590). The latter is free from Genealogical Publishing, upon request, with the purchase of any of its Family Archive CDs -- produced in collaboration with Broderbund Software. Libraries and those who own all or some the printed volumes of "Encyclopedia" may want to acquire the recently published Index to Hinshaw's. It is a single alphabetical sequence of the names found therein. Each entry in this index contains the surname and given name and the volume number and page number where the name can be found. Index to Hinshaw's (8 1/2'' x11''; 1,155 pages, paperback) is also available from the publisher ($98.50 postpaid). STAR BREAK Researching in Oklahoma? Indians and Intruders Volume III, (120 pages, 8 1/2'x11'' paperback; $22.50 postpaid) compiled by Sharron Standifer Ashton is now available. (Ashton Books, 3812 Northwest Sterling, Norman, OK 73072- 1240; e-mail: sjoashton@aol.com This volume is another of a continuing series of much-needed abstracted records pertaining to ancestors -- red, white, and black -- who lived in Indian Territory (now eastern Oklahoma) prior to Oklahoma's statehood in 1907. Material includes abstracts of: Creek Indian Light Horsemen (warrants issued, 1869). Cherokee Civil War Claims Index (more than 400 individual claims for personal property losses). Chickasaw Nation Citizenship Records (1896-1897). Our Brothers in Red, Methodist newspaper Indian Territory News, January 1890-May 1891. Early Choctaw Mission Students (in Mississippi in 1823). Choctaw Nation Court Records, Blue County, 1852-1858. Indian Captives in the Southwest, Kiowa Indian Agency, 1870-1872. (c) 1999, Los Angeles Times Syndicate Myra Vanderpool Gormley and Julie Case are co-editors of Missing Links, a free weekly genealogy e-zine. To subscribe, send your request to: Missing Links Newsletter Return to Myra Vanderpool Gormley Main Page Return to Columns Main Page
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