Bibliography of Quaker and General Genealogy Resources

Section 1 – General Genealogical Resources – Usually Available in Local Libraries

Eicholz, Alice, ed. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 1989. CS49.A55 1989

American Association for State & Local History, ed. Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada. 15th ed. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. 2001 E172.D48 2001

Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. CS47.G73 2001

Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Luebking, Sandra Hargreaves, ed. The Source: a Guidebook of American Genealogy. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1997. CS49.S65 1997

Section 2 – General Quaker Resources – may be available at local libraries and Family History Centers, as well as other Quaker libraries

(Call numbers only valid at Haverford College Quaker Collection)

Berry, Ellen T. Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987, 1996. BX7721.5.B58 093

Milligan, Edward H. My Ancestors Were Quakers: How Can I Find Out More About Them? New York: State Mutual Book and Periodical Service, Ltd, 1983, 1990. BX7721.5.M65 M99

Berry and Milligan are both guides to doing Quaker genealogical research; with Berry focusing on the U.S. and Milligan on Great Britain.

Haverford College. Quaker Necrology. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1961. 2 vols.
BX7632.H3 L63

Hamm, Thomas D. and Willard C. Heiss. Quaker Genealogies, a Selected List of Books. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1986. BX7721.5H47 Q2

Lists genealogies by surname and includes a cross-reference index.

Hill, Thomas C. Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index. Available from the author: Thomas C. Hill, 1800 Star Bank Center, 425 Walnut St., Cincinnati, OH 45202-3957. <hill@taftlaw.com> BX7607.H648M78 1998

Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Guide to the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. (compiled by Jack Eckert.) Philadelphia: Records Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. 1989 Also available for purchase $5.00 prepaid from Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041-1392.BX7665.P5 P5 1989

Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., 1936. 6 vols. and Index. BX7720.H66E5

Hinshaw abstracted the genealogical information from the records of some early meetings in OH, PA, VA, NY, NC, NJ, MI. (A single index to all six volumes has been published, and the entire reference work is available on Family Archives CD #192)

Penn's Colony: Genealogical and Historical Materials Relating to the Settlement of Pennsylvania. Vol. I , McCracken, ed. & Vol. II, Shepherd, ed. ( Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970, 1984; BX7663.P4 P392

Penn’s Colony has information about some of the earliest settlers of Pennsylvania and about the Welcome Claimants.

Worrall, Jay Jr. The Friendly Virginians: America’s First Quakers. Athens, GA. Iberian Publishing Company, 1994. BX7663.V8 W93 1994

Section 3 – Specific Resources of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College

Dictionary of Quaker Biography -- an unpublished typescript with short biographical sketches of c. 20,000 Quakers in England and the United States

Haverford College Archives -- information about matriculates, faculty and staff of Haverford College

Manuscript Materials -- correspondence, diaries, etc.

Pamphlet and Serial Groups -- files of clippings, pamphlets and serials on topics relating to Quakers and Quakerism, including individual Quakers and Quaker families

Quaker genealogies -- the Quaker Collection includes over 300 published genealogies

Quaker Necrology -- a card index of obituaries in eight Quaker periodicals, 1828-present (entries to 1961 have been published -- see section I)

Quaker periodicals -- some of the articles and obituaries in Quaker periodicals are indexed in Quaker Necrology and Quaker Reference Index

Quaker Reference Index -- card index to historical articles and biographical sketches of Quaker interest, in some periodicals and books.

Tripod -- Haverford College's on-line catalog which is shared with Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges [http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/]

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records and Baltimore Yearly Meeting Records -- include information about births, deaths, marriages of Quakers, but you must know the name of the Monthly Meeting of the individual you are researching

Section 4– A Few Interesting and Helpful Websites and Internet Addresses

http://cyndislist.com/

Perhaps the most comprehensive listing of genealogical website links on the internet, with specialized areas and indices ranging from country of origin to cemeteries.

Immigrant & Passenger Arrivals: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm

Contains listings of the passenger list microfilms and their indices. Available at: http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/

USGenWeb project [http://www.rootsweb.com/]

Religious Society of Friends: [http://www.quaker.org]

The Quaker Corner: [http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers]

Friends Historical Library (Swarthmore College)
[http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends]

Friends Historical Collection (Guilford college)
[http://www.guilford.edu/library/index.cfm?ID=110000880]

Friends Collection (Earlham College)
[http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/quaker/]