William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records

Date: 1680 to 1940
Location: United States
Surname/tag: Quaker

Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680-1940

Ancestry.com. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

• Introduction

William Wade Hinshaw oversaw vast a genealogical project attempting to index the records of the American branch of the Religious Society of Friends. At the time of his death, Mr. Hinshaw had accumulated a mass of unpublished genealogical data which had been copied under his direction. His widow presented this material to the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College were it resides today.

The following is Lyman W Riley's description of The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records.:

The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records comprises over 200,000 cards, each card containing the name of a person and an item of genealogical interest about that person. The cards are arranged by meetings and alphabetically by name within each meeting. In most cases a brief history of the meeting is included in the file. Births, deaths, marriages, disownments, and removals are the principal kinds of data recorded. Reference is made on each card to the volume and page of the original record from which the item was copied."

(See: Riley, Lyman W.The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records. Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, vol. 39 no. 1, 1950, pp. 37-38. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/396450.)

• Availability

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• Citiation example:

<span id='WWHinshawIndex'></span>Hinshaw, William Ward, [[Space:Hinshaw_Index_to_Selected_Quaker_Records|''William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records'']], Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.

• Hinshaw, William Ward, William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.

• Footnote example

<ref name='HinshawIndex'>[[#WWHinshawIndex|William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records]]: State, Monthly Meeting, Image #, Name.</ref>

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1. ↑ William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records: Indiana, Lapel Monthly Meeting, Image #107, Lloyd Ledbetter.

• Content:

States covered include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin.

Also included is a section called Supplemental Material. This includes

1. Abbreviations and Symbols of Meetings
2. Index by State

Sources

• Riley, Lyman W.The William Wade Hinshaw Index to Quaker Meeting Records. Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, vol. 39 no. 1, 1950, pp. 37-38. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/396450.
• Hinshaw, William Ward, William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.