Andrea, Thank you so much for sharing so much information. This is wonderful. I have learned so much and apparently others have learned a lot from my little inquire. Ann On 11/24/06, andrea long <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another tidbit, Yearly Meetings are made up of Quarterly Meetings, these > Quarterly Meetings are made up of the Montly Meetings and local meeting (not > all local meetings are their own indepentant MM, but a part of another MM, > (another monkey wrench in your search) anyway, these Quarterly Meetings, > which use to meet once every three months, would conduct a business meeting > where there also might be minutes that list marriages, births and > deaths. Back during this time period you are looking at, most Quarterly > Meetings were well attended and many took responsbilites, so you might find > your family mentioned in them as well. All these old minutes are fun to > read through, to not only get genealogy info from them but to peek a little > at what your ancestors were also concerned about or how they might be living > their lives. These would be something that you would want to look through > yourself, as a researcher would not really take the time to get for you, you > will have to visit > the archive to do that. > > So there is the United Meeting made up of Yearly Meetings, which are made > up of Quaterly Meetings and Monthly Meetings (if not a part of a QM), and > Monthly Meetings can be stand alone or of two or more local meetings. But > remember not all local meetings are necessarily a part of any other > organized Society of Friends for lots of reasons. > Andrea > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Ann Brown " Cookie"