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From: "Thelma Nation" <>
Subject: Re: [PA-QUAKERS] Where do I start???
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:05:33 -0600
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The Quaker records are the best kept records you will ever find.
Try Quaker Corner.com. Olive Tree.com and check your local library for I
believe Hinshaw, there is 7 volumes by him.
My mother-in-law's mother was Quaker. Family Tree Maker has a cd on Quaker
records.
Thelma Nation

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>
>
> I do not know if this will help or not, but I have been working off
> and on with my Quaker roots and have found the following:
>
> 1. The family history written by a member who lived from 1836 to 1934 was
> priceless. I have checked his material against other sources and his to
date has
> been right.
>
> 2. My Quakers knew how to read and write and kept good Bible records.
>
> 3. My main Quaker line KIRK arrived in New Castle Delaware from Northern
> Ireland in 168? They then went to Chester, PA>York, PA>Bald Eagle
> Valley/Millesburg PA>Clearfield County where they mostly stayed put. I
have found that this
> was a common progression.
>
> 4. One of my other lines which I think may have been Quaker did a
Southern
> version of this route from Maryland to York to Huntington County to
Clearfield
> County. Note at the time of these migrations Center County was contained
by
> Clinton and Huntington Counties. This line was the NORRIS family.
>
> 5. Four of my lines which moved west into Clearfield County were vets of
the
> Revolutionary War. Did their Quaker meetings throw them out for being in
the
> war? Were they given land grants for fighting? Were they just people who
> wanted to move on? I do know that most were no longer Quaker by the mid
1800s.
>
> 6. There are books of minutes of Quaker Meetings. Many of these people
> married each other. I was surprised to find out how many ways my parents
shared
> common relatives. I have been surprised to find out how many people my
cousins
> have married are related to the same people I am back a few generations.
>
> 7. It has not been uncommon for two large families living near each other
to
> have two or more marriages between the families. Frequently the first
born
> male had a middle name which was the surname of one of his mother's
relatives.
> Frequently unusual names will repeat in a family. Mose, Aletta and Inez
are
> repeating names in my family to this day.
>
> 8. If your relatives had money, property or businesses there were a rash
of
> books published in the 1880s which featured county history and families
who
> paid to be written about. Historical societies and county libraries
sometimes
> have these.
>
>
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