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This is a reproduction of the original edition including imperfections. Included with the purchase of this book is free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can read more than a million books for free, including many of the greatest books of all time like: * The complete works of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain * Swift's Gulliver's Travels * Defoe's Robinson Crusoe * Thackeray's Vanity Fair * Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice * Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams * Albert Einstein's Relativity * F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby * George Orwell's 1984 * Milton's Paradise Lost * Smith's Wealth of Nations * Darwin's Origin of Species * Aristotle's Ethics * Plato's Dialogues * Thos. à Kempis' Imitation of Christ * Hume's History of England * Carlyle's French Revolution * Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire * . . .and more than a million more books These books have been a source of inspiration, joy and enlightenment to millions through the ages. Now they can all be yours. ... Read more

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As one of the original colonies, New Jersey is considered the ancestral home ofmillions of Americans living today. This present work, a joint project of the GenealogicalSociety of New Jersey and the Genealogical Publishing Company, acknowledges the pressingneed for comprehensive, scholarly works on New Jersey families, and it therefore bringstogether all of the compiled material (genealogies, biographies, etc.) and Bible records publishedin the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, the Society's celebrated periodical, from its firstissue in 1925 through the end of Volume 65.Selected by the Society's Board of Trustees, the contents reflect the entire genealogical output ofthe Magazine, including Charles Carroll Gardner's famous but incomplete series, "AGenealogical Dictionary of New Jersey." Under the direction of the Board, GPC assembled thevarious articles into two massive volumes, each numbering over 1,000 pages! Finally, GPCproduced the name indexes containing over 70,000 names! The fruit of these labors, withoutexaggeration, is the most comprehensive and well-researched body of compiled New Jerseygenealogy ever printed in one place. ... Read more

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Pubisher's Synopsys of the 2004 reprint edition by Clearfield Publishing.
This much-anticipated consolidation brings together all of the compiled material (genealogies, biographies, etc.) and Bible records published in the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, the Genealogical Society of New Jersey's celebrated periodical, from its first issue in 1925 through the end of Volume 65. Under the direction of the Board of the Society, Genealogical Publishing Company assembled the various articles into two massive volumes, each numbering over 1,000 pages, and produced the name indexes containing over 70,000 names! Among other things, the researcher will find special chapters on old New Netherland families, several hundred sketches on New Jersey families with surnames from Aalje through Antram compiled by Charles C. Gardner for his short-lived "Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey," and scores upon scores of Bible records. The lion's share of the two volumes, of course, is devoted to detailed genealogies of the following New Jersey families:

Volume I: Anderson, Anderson (also Van Lieu & Lanning), Andruss-Delaplaine, Arnett, Ayers, Bainbridge, Beavers, Beem (Beam), Blackford, Bogert, Borden, Brearly & Biles, Breese, Cavelier (Cavellaer), Cavileer, Clark, Cook, Cooke, Cousins-Cousens-Cozens, Crane, Cuyper, Davison, Decker, Dehart, Fenwick (also Adams, Hedge, & Champneys), Frelinghuysen, Goulder, Hamilton, Harrison, Harshall, Hegeman, Hendricks, Hendrickson, Hopper, Horner, Hugg, Humphries, Hunt, Johnson, Joslin, Kendall, Kollock, Kollocks, Landon, Lippincott, Loofburrow, Martin, McFarling, McShane, Megill, Mersereau, Morford, Nicholson, Oliphant, Oliver, Osborn, Osborne, Parker, Post, Rederick, Reeder, Ridgway (also Cattell), Rudderow, Rue, Sharp, Sigler, Smith, Snedeker, Somers, Spier, Staats, Stelle, Stokes, Stoothhoff, Strang, Swazey, Terhune, Tilton, Toers-Tuers, Tompkins, Tuttle, Van Dalssen-Van Dalsem, Van der Linde, Van Dien, Van Kirk, Van Wickelen, Venicomb, Voorhees, Warde-Ward, Webley, Wheeler, Whitall, Williams, Willson, Winsor, Wood, and Zabrieskie.

Volume II: Allen, Alston, Baldwin, Bastedo, Bee-Hunt, Bishop, Bush, Cattell, Cavert, Chamberlin, Chandler, Clarkson, Clarkson-Codington-Gilman, Coriel-Smalley, Couwenhoven, Craven, Croel, Demarest-Van der Linde, Dumont, Evens, Forman, Garwood, Gaston, Green, Halsted, Hazelit, Herbert, Hill, Hoogeland, Johnson, King, Lawrence-Walton, Lippett-Goodnough, Lippincott, Matlock, Moore, Morford, Nevius, Olden, Osmun, Paul, Pierson, Polhemus, Price-Pearce, Prickitt, Ryder, Ryerson, Sapp, Smith, Stinson, Ten Eick, Townsend, Vanderhoef, Vorhees, Woodruff, Woodward-Cook-Earl, Wortman, Wyckoff, Yawger, and Zimmerman (also Mossbrooks). ... Read more

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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Genealogies of New Jersey Families
The book is good if it's all you have.However, if you're a member of a genealogy web site like [...], all of this same data is available thre.I was hoping this book would go beyond what they have, and provide data from New Jersey church records, but it did not.I was disappointed. ... Read more

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The second volume of the great Encyclopedia is complete in itself for the NewJersey and Pennsylvania monthly meetings which were part of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.It includes all records of genealogical value, both Orthodox and Hicksite, known to be inexistence for the meetings from the last quarter of the seventeenth century down to the time thework was originally published in 1938. The records are of two principal classes: (1) births anddeaths and (2) minutes and marriages, and they are arranged in alphabetical order, by familyname, under their corresponding monthly meeting. The marriages are arranged by the names ofboth brides and grooms. Also provided are abstracts of Quaker certificates of removal, whichenable genealogists to trace Quaker ancestors from one monthly meeting to another. ... Read more

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Philadelphia area records from the late 1600's thru late 1800's
Large book that would be cumbersome if in hardback.Heavy enough in paperback.Print is typewriter letters but clearly and solidly set on the page.

I took this volume to bed to read but laid it on the bed for support while reading.

It has a general history of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a page of abbreviations, and a little history of each of the earliest four monthly meetings (Salem NJ, Burlington NJ, Philadelphia PA, Falls-Fallsington,Bucks Co. PA), their records, and where those records are kept.

There is a 135 page family name index with variations of spellings grouped together before all the page numbers are given.

Notice is made of any individuals within a family group entry of a different name.

I had great fun reading it cover to cover.1126 pages including index.

Essential for Quaker Research
INDEX to the Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 1750-1930 by William Wade Hinshaw.

DearREADERS, "Totally thrilled" describes my feelings as I received my copy of the index to our library's copy of William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 1750-1930. This past summer I discovered I have Welsh and English Quaker ancestry in Chester County, PA. (Merion on the Welsh Tract.) Prior to this I'd had no personal experience doing Quaker Research.

When I asked others about Quaker Research, they raved about Mr. Hinshaw's six volume compilation of Friend's Monthly Meeting records listing births, deaths, marriages and removals. That last term refers to entries in the church books when Society of Friends members moved from one area to another. They were removed from the old Monthly Meeting membership in order to join the new group.

We're fortunate to have Mr. Hinshaw's complete set of Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy at our local public library. As I uncover new names to research, I'll be turning again and again to Henshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy.

From the publisher: "William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, originally published between 1936 and 1950. Containing approximately 500,000 entries.. each volume ha[s] a separate surname index..."

"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. Volume 1: NORTH CAROLINA Volume II: NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA Volume III: NEW YORK Volume IV: OHIO Volume V: OHIO Volume VI: VIRGINIA"

If as the publisher suggests, 50% of our pre-1850 US ancestors were Quaker, than every researcher needs a personal copy of the index, and every genealogy library needs the six volumeEncyclopedia! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more