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This birth index of Ireland gives the family researcher several pieces of information that will prove most useful.First, it gives the county or counties of location for the name in Ireland along with the geographical province.Second, it gives the relative number of births for each surname having 5 or more births in the year it was recorded. The locations given are considered generally accurate for the entire 19th century, (1800 - 1899), and the formal survey was made in 1890.Researchers can also compare the locations of different names in Ireland, i.e. husband and wifes family location in Ireland.A very helpful index that every researcher should be familiar with.

Map of Ireland with counties and provinces is provided along with new commentary introducing the work itself.The index appears exactly as in the original in the Foundation Library, and shows some signs of age.Lay flat binding is helpful for research use. ... Read more

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The second volume of the great Encyclopedia is complete in itself for the NewJersey and Pennsylvania monthly meetings which were part of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.It includes all records of genealogical value, both Orthodox and Hicksite, known to be inexistence for the meetings from the last quarter of the seventeenth century down to the time thework was originally published in 1938. The records are of two principal classes: (1) births anddeaths and (2) minutes and marriages, and they are arranged in alphabetical order, by familyname, under their corresponding monthly meeting. The marriages are arranged by the names ofboth brides and grooms. Also provided are abstracts of Quaker certificates of removal, whichenable genealogists to trace Quaker ancestors from one monthly meeting to another. ... Read more

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Essential for Quaker Research
INDEX to the Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 1750-1930 by William Wade Hinshaw.

DearREADERS, "Totally thrilled" describes my feelings as I received my copy of the index to our library's copy of William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 1750-1930. This past summer I discovered I have Welsh and English Quaker ancestry in Chester County, PA. (Merion on the Welsh Tract.) Prior to this I'd had no personal experience doing Quaker Research.

When I asked others about Quaker Research, they raved about Mr. Hinshaw's six volume compilation of Friend's Monthly Meeting records listing births, deaths, marriages and removals. That last term refers to entries in the church books when Society of Friends members moved from one area to another. They were removed from the old Monthly Meeting membership in order to join the new group.

We're fortunate to have Mr. Hinshaw's complete set of Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy at our local public library. As I uncover new names to research, I'll be turning again and again to Henshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy.

From the publisher: "William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, originally published between 1936 and 1950. Containing approximately 500,000 entries.. each volume ha[s] 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.

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. 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 the index, and every genealogy library needs the six volumeEncyclopedia! ... Read more

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In 1951 the DAR Magazine published Genealogical Guide: Master Index ofGenealogy in the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volumes 1-84 (1892-1950).In this instance more than forty members of the Elizabeth Benton Chapter of Kansas City,Missouri worked for months on the Guide. In all nearly 39,000 references evolved into an indexof fifty-nine years of the DAR Magazine. Five years later, the same workers produced asupplementary volume extending the coverage of the Genealogical Guide to 1955. TheGenealogical Guide and the Supplement are reproduced in their entirety in this new publication,complete with a new Introduction by the DAR's distinguished librarian, Eric G. Grundset. In thisone convenient book, the researcher now has access to all genealogical items that appeared in thefirst 89 volumes of the DAR Magazine. ... Read more

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Essential to the Virginia researcher, this celebrated book consists of an alphabetical surname index to all works published prior to 1930 containing genealogies of Virginia families. In all, there are about 6,000 family names with more than 18,000 references, each keyed to the work containing the pedigree--whether book, magazine, lineage paper, or newspaper. ... Read more