General Resource Sites

• Glossaire Quaker Glossary 
  This glossary contains only Quaker jargon, i.e. words used in a special sense among Quakers. In French & English.
• Quaker Alphabet Soup 
• Quaker Corner 
  • Finding Your Quaker Roots 
  • Glossary of Quaker Terms 
  • Meeting Organization of the Society of Friends (Quakers) 
  • Quaker Customs & Beliefs 
  • Quaker Monthly Meetings 
    Searchable database.
  • Quaker Queries & Archives 
  • Quaker Silhouettes 
• Quaker Dates 
• Quaker Electronic Archive 
  Has Quaker writings, meeting minutes, resource guides and a message board.
• Quaker Resources Online - Malone College 
• Religious Movements 
  From the University of Virginia. Includes profiles on over 200 religious movements. Each profile offers basic demographic and background information, a summary of beliefs, discussion of controversial issues (when appropriate), links to important web sites about each group, and select print bibliographies
  • Orientation to the Religious Group Profile Pages 
    • Alphabetic Listing of Group Profile Pages 
      • Quakers 
• The Religious Society of Friends 
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Religious Society of Friends 

History

• A Fractured History of Quakers in America 
• History of the Free Quakers 
• Quaker History 
• Quaker History Archves 
• "Quakers in Brief" or "Quakerism made Easy" 
  An over-view of the Quaker movement from 1650 to 1990, by David M Murray-Rust.
• Quaker Theologies in the 19th Century Separations 
• A Short History of Conservative Friends 

How To

• Ancestry.com - Quaker Records 
  Article by Maureen A. Taylor.
• Guide to Hinshaw - Guide to Researching Quaker Records - Using Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
  Includes abbreviations used in this important Quaker genealogical resource.
• Quaker Abbreviations for Meeting Minutes 

Libraries, Archives & Museums

• Bryn Mawr College Library 
  • Special Collections 
  • Tripod 
    The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries, each with special collections for Quaker research.
• Craigavon Museum Services  ~ Armagh, Northern Ireland
  • Genealogy 
  • Local History 
  • Quakers 
• Family History Library Catalog 
  From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other keywords.
  • Quaker 
  • Society of Friends 
• Friends Collection at the Earlham College Libraries 
  The Arthur and Kathleen Postle Archives and Friends Collection is one of the four or five largest in the world, with more than 12,000 books and nearly as many pamphlets, some going back to the 17th Century when the Society of Friends was founded. These works are supplemented with an extensive collection of Quaker genealogical materials. Personal diaries, letters, and detailed records of monthly and yearly meetings reveal the lives of thousands of Quaker men and women. The Friends Collection draws hundreds of scholars and genealogists to Lilly Library annually. In addition to assisting these visitors, College Archivist and Curator, Thomas D. Hamm, answers nearly 400 inquiring letters each year.
  • American Friend Obituary Index 
    Online searchable database from 1894 to 1960.
  • Indiana Yearly Meeting & Western Yearly Meeting Archives 
  • Josiah Parker Papers 
  • Manuscript Collections 
• Friends Historical Library 
  Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania.
  • Quaker Meeting Records 
  • Tripod 
    The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries, each with special collections for Quaker research.
• Friends University Library  ~ Wichita, Kansas
  • Special Collections 
• Guilford College Friends Historical Collection  ~ Greensboro, North Carolina
• Haverford College Libraries 
  Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Quaker and Special Collections 
  • Tripod 
    The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries, each with special collections for Quaker research.
• Mary L. Cook Public Library  ~ Waynesville, Ohio
  • The Ohioana Room 
• The Quaker Archives and Library of Canada 
  Maintained by the Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Includes the Canadian Yearly Meeting Archives and the Arthur Garratt Dorland Reference Library.
• Quaker Research Room Union Twn Heritage Association  ~ West Milton, Ohio
• The Quaker Room/Archives in the Edmund Stanley Library  ~ Wichita, Kansas
• Quakers in Britain - The Library 
  Friends House, London. Holds the central archives of Britain Yearly Meeting of Quakers as well as one of the largest collections of Quaker material in the world.
  • Genealogical Sources 
• Religious Archives at the University of Hull - Quakerism 
  The library holds extensive Quaker records from the East Riding of Yorkshire.
• Swarthmore College Libraries 
  • Friends Historical Library 
  • Tripod 
    The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries, each with special collections for Quaker research.
• Whittier College - Wardman Library  ~ Whittier, California
• Special Collections  
• The Wilmington College Archives and The Quaker Collection  ~ Wilmington, Ohio
  From the Watson Library.

Locality Specific

• Britain Yearly Meeting 
  Web site for Quakers in Britain, The Religious Society of Friends.
  • The Library, Friends House, London 
    • Genealogical Sources 
• New York Quakers 
• Quaker Genealogy in Southwest Ohio 
  Waynesville, Ohio was a central hub in the Quaker migration west from the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia from 1795.
• Quaker Meetinghouses & Sites in Southwest Ohio 
• Quaker Meetings by State 
  • Quaker Meetings in California 
  • Quaker Meetings in Colorado 
  • Quaker Meetings in Delaware 
  • Quaker Meetings in Illinois 
  • Quaker Meetings in Indiana 
  • Quaker Meetings in Iowa 
  • Quaker Meetings in Kansas 
  • Quaker Meetings in Maryland 
  • Quaker Meetings in Michigan 
  • Quaker Meetings in Missouri 
  • Quaker Meetings in Nebraska 
  • Quaker Meetings in Oklahoma 
  • Quaker Meetings in Oregon 
  • Quaker Meetings in the North West 
  • Quaker Meetings in the Upper Midwest 
• Quakers of Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana 
• Quakers [Society of Friends] in Illinois 
• The Society of Friends in Fulton County, Illinois 
• Southern Quaker Genealogy 
  A resource guide to Southern Quaker genealogy organized by state and Monthly Meeting.
  • Wrightsboro: a Georgia Quaker Colony 
    Many Ohio Quakers moved North from the short-lived Quaker colony in Wrightsboro, GA. Page gives the original charter granted to colonists, with names of grantees and acreage received, also surname links to pages and other information on Wrightsboro.
• Wrightsborough Georgia Genealogy 
• Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project  ~ England

Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Religions / Churches Mailing Lists 
  Most of the mailing list links below point to this site, wonderfully maintained by John Fuller. John indexes links for all known genealogy mailing lists, including RootsWeb and others.
• RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: Religion 
  The majority of genealogy mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb.com. Messages on RootsWeb lists are archived. The links to RootsWeb below point you to the archives (browse or search).

• CAN-ONT-QUAKERS Mailing List 
  For anyone researching their Quaker or Religious Society of Friends ancestors in Ontario, Canada. Archives: browse or search.
• PA-QUAKERS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Quaker families that settled and lived in Pennsylvania. Archives: browse or search.
• QuakerAncestors Mailing List 
• QUAKER-BRITISH-ISLES Mailing List 
  For . Archives: browse or search.
• QUAKER-L Mailing List 
• QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing list  and the QUAKER-ROOTS Discussion Group 
  Archives: browse or search.
• UNDERGROUND-RR Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the underground railroad - the loose network of antislavery northerners that illegally helped fugitive slaves reach safety in the free states or Canada in the period before the American Civil War. Archives: browse or search.

People & Families

• HINSHAW Family Association 
• Mary DYER, Quaker Martyr 
• MENDENHALL Family Association 
• The Quaker Collection 
  "A collection of Family Group Sheets, originally published on FidoNet, of a number of early, significant Quaker families".
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - George Fox 

Professional Researchers, Volunteers & Other Research Services

Publications, Software & Supplies

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Quakers 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana 
    A book by Ruth Dorrel.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
    A book by Hinshaw. Paperback, Vol 002.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
    A book by Hinshaw. Paperback, Vol 004.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
    A book by Hinshaw. Paperback, Vol 005.
  • Guide to Irish Quaker Records 1654-1860 
    A book by Olive C. Goodbody.
  • Index to Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
    A book by William Wade Hinshaw.
  • Our Quaker Ancestors : Finding Them in Quaker Records 
    A book by Ellen Thomas Berry.
  • Portrait in Grey: A Short History of the Quakers 
    A book by John Punshon.
  • Protestant Non-Conformity & Roman Catholicism - PRO Readers' Guide No. 13 
    A book by David Shorney.
  • Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia 1682-1750, Being a List of Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends 
    A book by Albert Cook Myers.
  • Quaker Genealogies: A Selected List of Books 
    A book by W. Heiss.
  • Quakers and the American Family : British Settlement in the Delaware Valley 
    A book by Barry Levy.
  • Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts 
    A book by Carla Gardina Pestana.
  • Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation 
    A book by H. Larry Ingle.
  • Quaker Records of Southern Maryland, 1658-1800 
    A book by Henry C. Peden Jr.
  • The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 
    A book by Thomas D. Hamm.
  • Understanding and Using Baptismal Records 
    A book by John Humphrey. Discusses Quaker records in lieu of their lack of a baptismal tradition.
• Genealogical.com - Religions/Quaker 
  The online store of Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. & Clearfield Company.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
    A CD-ROM for sale that comprises all six volumes of Hinshaw's encyclopedia.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. I: (North Carolina Yearly Meeting) 
    A book by William Wade Hinshaw.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. II: (New Jersey and Pennsylvania Monthly Meetings) 
    A book by William Wade Hinshaw.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. IV: (Ohio Monthly Meetings) 
    A book by William Wade Hinshaw.
  • Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. V: (Ohio Monthly Meetings)  
    A book by William Wade Hinshaw.
  • Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 
    A book by Albert Cook Myers.
  • Index to Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 
    A book by William Wade Hinshaw.
  • Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700 
    A book by David Dobson.
• My Ancestors Were Quakers: How Can I Find Out More About Them? 
  A book by Edward Milligan.
• Society of Genealogists Bookshop 
  A source for books of interest to the family historian researching UK ancestors who were Friends.
• Where Did Hinshaw Put Those Quaker Records? 
  From the Quaker Corner: A simplified index to the 6-Volumes of "The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy".

Queries, Message Boards & Surname Lists

• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Quaker 
  • Quaker Roots 
• Quaker Meetings Message Board 
  For posting information about the older Quaker Monthly Meetings that are important in genealogical research.

Records: Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes and Vital

*Keep in mind that extractions & transcriptions may have errors or may be missing certain portions of the original source material. Always refer to the original source material whenever possible and only use extractions & transcriptions as a starting point to help guide you in your research.

• Ancestry.com - Quaker Databases at Ancestry.com 
  A list by Kip Sperry of databases available by subscription.
  • Ancestry.com - Chappaqua, Westchester County, New York Quaker Records 
    Original source: Quaker Records: Chappaqua Monthly Meeting: Westchester County, New York: To Which is Appended Chappaqua Burial Ground, Armonk Burial Ground. U.S.: s.n., 19--.
  • Ancestry.com - Dutchess County, New York Quaker Records 
    Electronic reproduction of Cox, John, Jr., comp. Quaker Records: Nine-Partners Monthly Meeting, Dutchess Co., N.Y.
  • Ancestry.com - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 1 
    Original source: Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 1. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1936-.
  • Ancestry.com - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 
    Original source: Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 2. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1938-.
  • Ancestry.com - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 3 (New York) 
    Original source: Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I-VI. Ann Arbor, MI: 1940.
  • Ancestry.com - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 4 
    Original source: Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 4. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1938-.
  • Ancestry.com - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 5 
    Original source: Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 5. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1938-.
  • Ancestry.com - Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 6 
    Original source: Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume 6. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1938-.
  • Ancestry.com - Essex County, New Jersey Quaker Records 
    Electronic reproduction of Cox, John, Jr., comp. Quaker Records: Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meetings Essex County, New Jersey.
  • Ancestry.com - Illinois Quaker Records 
    Original source: Quaker Records: Illinois Monthly Meetings. U.S.: s.n., 19--.
  • Ancestry.com - Irish Quaker Immigration into Pennsylvania 
    Original source: Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania. Swarthmore, PA: 1902.
  • Ancestry.com - Missouri Quaker Records 
    Original source: Quaker Records: Missouri Monthly Meetings: Fairview, Kansas City, Jackson County, Union Jasper County. U.S.: s.n., 19--.
  • Ancestry.com - Nebraska Monthly Meeting: Quaker Records 
    Original source: Quaker records: Nebraska Monthly Meeting: Central City Meeting, Elk Valley, Friendsdale, North Loup, Plainview, Pierce County, Pleasant Hill, Spring Bank, Lincoln Executive (Hicksite).
  • Ancestry.com - Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland Quaker Records 
    Original source: Maryland Quaker Records: Nottingham Monthly Meetings, Cecil County. U.S.: s.n., 19--.
  • Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania Irish Quaker Immigrants, 1682-1750 
    Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750. Philadelphia: - , 1902.
  • Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania, Quaker arrivals at Philadelphia (Meeting), 1682-1750 
    Original source: Myers, Albert Cook. Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1957.
  • Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania Quaker Records 
    Original source: Pennsylvania Quaker Records: Warrington, York County, Little Brittain, Lancaster County, Centre, Centre County, West Branch, Clearfield County, Dunnings Creek, Bedford County. Society of Friends, 19-.
  • Ancestry.com - Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts 
    Hallowell, Richard P. Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883.
  • Ancestry.com - Virginia Early Quaker Records 
    Original source: White, Miles Jr., comp. Early Quaker Records of Virginia. Southern History Association, 1902-1903.
• Ancestry.com - Quaker Records 
  Article by Maureen A. Taylor.
• Ancestry.com - Quaker Records for Genealogists 
  Article by Kip Sperry.
• Barber Corners Quaker Cemetery 
  Town of Ledyard, New York.
• Canadian Quaker Transcription Project 
  Project to transcribe all the Quaker Minute books and Registers in Upper Canada from 1798 to about 1830.
• Dutchess County, New York American Local History Network 
  Genealogy, history, cemetery & Quaker records.
  • Dutchess County, NY Quaker Records Index 
    • Dutchess County, New York Births 
      Quaker Births.
    • Dutchess County NY LHN Cemeteries 
      Quaker cemetery records for Dutchess County, NY.
    • Quaker Deaths, Dutchess, NY, ALHN 
      Quaker Deaths from the Oblong Monthly Meeting.
    • Quaker Marriages, Dutchess, NY, ALHN 
      From the Oblong Monthly Meeting.
    • Quaker Removals Dutchess, NY, ALHN 
      Quaker Removals from the Nine Partners Monthly Meeting.
• Fair Hill Burial Ground  ~ North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  The Fair Hill Burial Ground was founded in 1703 on part of a grant of land of 16 acres given to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) by George Fox, who is known as the founder of the Society.Most of the persons buried at Fair Hill are Quakers, many of them participants in the early abolitionist and women's rights movements.
• Genealogy.com - The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930 
  Approximately 455,000 names from 18th and 19th century Quaker records. Database available by subscription to the Genealogy.com Genealogy Library.
• Heads of Families, Oblong and Nine Partners Circularly, Dutchess, NY 
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Militia of Dutchess County New York - List of Quakers 1755 
• Olive Tree Genealogy - New York Militia: Enrolment of the People Called Quakers 
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Quakers born in USA in the Canadian Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index) 
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Quakers found in New York City Wills, 1706 to 1790 
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Quakers of New York City, Jamaica, Queens Co., New Town, Hempstead, Oyster Bay 1755 
  Locations include New York City, Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, Hempstead, and Oysterbay.
• PA Quakers Naturalized in 1740 
• PA Quaker Naturalizations--1760 
• Pennsylvania's Civil War Conscientious Objectors 
  Database of names of Pennsylvania men who refused military service during the American Civil War for reasons of conscience. Arranged by surname and by county.
• Quaker Burying Ground  ~ Morris, Otsego County, New York
• Quaker Cemetery, Knoxville, Tioga County, PA 
• Quaker Hill Cemetery (Friends)  ~ Uxbridge Township, Ontario County, Ontario
  Transcription of the cemetery.
• Quaker Marriages 
• Quakers in New York City 
  List of the names of the Quakers enrolled in the office of Town Clerk, of and in the City of New York, pursuant to an Act of Assembly, entitled an Act, for Regulating the Militia of the Colony of New York, made and published the 19th day of February last 1755/6.
• Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meeting 
  Includes Register of Births - 1705 - 1890, Register of Deaths - 1705 - 1892, Plainfield Burial Ground.
• South Carolina Quaker Meeting Membership List, 1772-1820 
• Warrington Burial Ground 
  Warrington Friends Burial Ground, near Wellsville, York County, Pennsylvania.

Societies & Groups

• Canadian Friends Historical Association 
• Capel - The Chapels Heritage Society  ~ Wales
• The Chapels Society  ~ United Kingdom
• Evangelical Friends International 
• Friends General Conference 
• Friends Historical Association  ~ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Friends United Meeting 
• Historic Chapels Trust  ~ United Kingdom
• New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 
  The Religious Society of Friends in New England.
• North Carolina Friends Historical Society  ~ Greensboro, North Carolina
• Quaker Family History Society  ~ England
  The society for family historians with British Quaker ancestors.
• The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania 
  The purposes of The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania are to perpetuate the memory of those who came to America with William Penn and to bring together the descendants of these Quaker travellers.

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