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21211-1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $59.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397382. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7192.html.
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.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Maryland Settlers
and Soldiers
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7521; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397788. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7521.html.
Consisting of the most authoritative books ever
published on Maryland in the colonial wars, the
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