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