I was getting ready to tell a buddy how to look at his Quaker connections on Ancestry today and thought that I should just make a blog post for EVERYONE! The most important thing on Ancestry for me are their Quaker records! They are amazing! After signing in to Ancestry, go to search and choose card catalog from the drop down menu, Put Quaker into the search box for keyword. Scroll down to the record collection that has more than 6 million records in it and choose it. It is fully searchable and takes you to the actual, real, in their own handwriting records of the Quakers in the US. It is an amazing collection!
If you have any ancestor who may have passed through the Philly area, you want to take a quick look to see if there is any record in any of the monthly meetings along the way to where you are finding them at this point in your research. The Quakers always took a letter with them to say that they were in good standing in their monthly meeting in which they were now a part....which means that you will find where they were coming from and where they were going. And often names of children and spouses and marriages and even more fun: wrong doings!
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