Michael M. van Beuren, I opened the e-mail at my old office in Cincinnati yesterday and forwarded your message here. I guess you already received my Out-of-Office message suggesting folks drop the old TaftLaw address. I also saw that you sent the same message through Quaker-Roots last Saturday. The answer today is essentially the same as, if slightly more Web-savvy than, my May 1999 answer. The QuakerMeetings.com records are based on the same database as I used in 1999, with a few new fields for web links. The originals are at Swarthmore or Haverford, as shown in each record. Few of the record books themselves are on-line, unless one can access the LDS microfilm on-line (which I do not know). Not much more microfilming has been done in the last 14 years, though the Philadelphia Y.M. records are part of the massive Ancestry.com Quaker-records digitalization project that I understand should go active in a few months. The Oley/Exeter/Reading Hicksite and Orthodox meeting entries are here: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/search_display?MeetingName=Oley The Maiden Creek Preparative Meeting apparently continued only under Exeter M.M. Orthodox, but it started under pre-separation Gwynedd M.M., as shown here: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/search_display?generalSearchWord=Maiden +Creek [Many e-mail servers insert one or more line breaks or returns in long URLs like this one, and one must manually edit the link to remove the break(s) before clicking through to the desired website.] Gwynedd does have on-line vital records, but perhaps Oley => Exeter was set off as a separate M.M. before your Wrights would have been listed. Tom Hill Thomas C. Hill Charlottesville, VA 22901-6355 U.S.A. formerly Cincinnati, OH www.QuakerMeetings.com E-mail: MonthlyMeetings@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike and Mary van Beuren [ <mailto:mikvan52@vermontel.net> mailto:mikvan52@vermontel.net] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:27 PM To: Hill, Thomas C. Subject: Genealogical Help for Friends Meetings at Maiden Creek and Oley/Exeter PA Re: Best sources for records of 18th century births, marriages, & deaths at Maiden Creek & Oley Friends Meetings. Dear Sir: Do I understand that the best source to find definitive records for such records is at Swarthmore? Or, is there an online source? Any help would be appreciated. I am looking for the details of the lives of Samuel Wright his wife (Lydia) and daughter Elizabeth (Wright) Lee . Elizabet Wright Lee was born in 1801 and was part of the Oley/Exeter Meeting. Thanks, Michael M. van Beuren <mailto:mikvan52@vermontel.net> mikvan52@vermontel.net BTW: I found your research info at: <http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/1999-05/09274879 80> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/1999-05/092748798 0
Friends, Dan Treadway noted that my link to the Gwynedd genealogy page (and all the Gwynedd-meeting links) needed correction. I have reset the links on https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/meeting_view?anID=1090 , but the family genealogies there do not include Wright or Lee. Tom Hill Thomas C. Hill Charlottesville, VA 22901-6355 U.S.A. formerly Cincinnati, OH www.QuakerMeetings.com E-mail: MonthlyMeetings@gmail.com ________________________________________ From: Tom Hill for MMNA [mailto:monthlymeetings@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 18 January, 2013 8:29 PM To: mikvan52@vermontel.net Cc: QUAKER-ROOTS@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: Genealogical Help for Friends Meetings at Maiden Creek and Oley/Exeter PA Michael M. van Beuren, I opened the e-mail at my old office in Cincinnati yesterday and forwarded your message here. I guess you already received my Out-of-Office message suggesting folks drop the old TaftLaw address. I also saw that you sent the same message through Quaker-Roots last Saturday. The answer today is essentially the same as, if slightly more Web-savvy than, my May 1999 answer. The QuakerMeetings.com records are based on the same database as I used in 1999, with a few new fields for web links. The originals are at Swarthmore or Haverford, as shown in each record. Few of the record books themselves are on-line, unless one can access the LDS microfilm on-line (which I do not know). Not much more microfilming has been done in the last 14 years, though the Philadelphia Y.M. records are part of the massive Ancestry.com Quaker-records digitalization project that I understand should go active in a few months. The Oley/Exeter/Reading Hicksite and Orthodox meeting entries are here: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/search_display?MeetingName=Oley The Maiden Creek Preparative Meeting apparently continued only under Exeter M.M. Orthodox, but it started under pre-separation Gwynedd M.M., as shown here: https://www.quakermeetings.com/Plone/search_display?generalSearchWord=Maiden +Creek [Many e-mail servers insert one or more line breaks or returns in long URLs like this one, and one must manually edit the link to remove the break(s) before clicking through to the desired website.] Gwynedd does have on-line vital records, but perhaps Oley => Exeter was set off as a separate M.M. before your Wrights would have been listed. Tom Hill Thomas C. Hill -----Original Message----- From: Mike and Mary van Beuren [mailto:mikvan52@vermontel.net] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:27 PM To: Hill, Thomas C. Subject: Genealogical Help for Friends Meetings at Maiden Creek and Oley/Exeter PA Re: Best sources for records of 18th century births, marriages, & deaths at Maiden Creek & Oley Friends Meetings. Dear Sir: Do I understand that the best source to find definitive records for such records is at Swarthmore? Or, is there an online source? Any help would be appreciated. I am looking for the details of the lives of Samuel Wright, his wife (Lydia) and daughter Elizabeth (Wright) Lee . Elizabet Wright Lee was born in 1801 and was part of the Oley/Exeter Meeting. Thanks, Michael M. van Beuren mikvan52@vermontel.net BTW: I found your research info at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/1999-05/092748798 0