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FAMILY ARCHIVE CDs
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Family Archives CD #192
This Family Archive CD contains all six volumes of William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, originally published between 1936 and 1950. Containing approximately 500,000 entries, the Encyclopedia--for all its massive and carefully compiled data--had a flaw: it did not contain an every-name index. Instead, each volume had a separate surname index, making searching for individuals somewhat tedious. With this CD, however, that problem is finally laid to rest, for in this CD we have images of the pages from all six volumes of the Encyclopedia, along with a complete electronic name index that allows you to search all six volumes quickly and effortlessly! Not only that, but the original published volumes had a retail value of $440.00. This CD version, therefore, is both a greatly improved research tool and a blockbuster of a bargain!
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. Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital records identifying these people are to be met with in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details of the removal of members from one meeting to another. (The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics are recorded, is in fact, a business meeting.)
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.
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| Item Number: | 401C-7192 |
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| List Price: | 59.99 |
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