Look for these Quaker genealogy websites:
As we know our Pierce Ancestors migrated from Pennsylvania to Virginia to North Carolina. I have merely scanned though this and have not yet read it it detail but it is a good source full of information of the North Carolina Quakers.
CANE CREEK Mother of Meetings Bobbie T. Teague
If you have some time give it a read. It is quite interesting.
ABBREVIATIONS
One thing you will find when scouring the records of the meetings is abbreviations that make you go “WHAT”??
You can find a complete list to the abbreviations and what they mean here.
Published transcripts and abstracts: (Hinshaw and Heiss)
- Hinshaw’s 6 volume Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is now available on CD .
- GPC also sells an index to the 6 volume paper edition (you wouldn’t need an index with the CD) ans well as reprint of each of the 6 volumes.
- vol. 1 North Carolinia
- vol. 2 New Jersey/Pennsylvania
- vol. 3 New York
- vol. 4 Ohio
- vol. 5 Ohio
- vol. 6 Virginia
- This set is available at Ancestry.com. (but you would have to sign up for a free trial to Ancestry.com and if you do, be sure to cancel early if you don’t want to pay for it.)
- When you first see information in Hinshaw you might think you are reading a foreign language…
use this- “Using Hinshaw” provides a brief guide to using the Hinshaw collection.
- Hinshaw does not include the Indiana meetings, which are covered in Heiss’ Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, also a 6 volume set. (find in a library)
- These two sets are available in most large libraries with genealogical or historical collections.
- There are other meetings not covered in Hinshaw, some published separately. These volumes cover many meetings in the United States.
