Hello Barbara, Lancaster was one of the early centres of the Quakers in the UK. The Meeting House dating from the 1600s is still there. A Quaker website www.quakerinfo.com/lancastr.shtml has some info for you on Lancaster and www.quaker.org has a piece on Quaker genealogy. If you put 'quaker genealogy' into google you'll be surprised at the number of hits. If you put in 'Quaker Hynde' you'll get a couple of hundred hits but they'll need sorting for usefulness. Rob Doragh Liverpool UK I trained as a teacher in Lancaster. Beautiful city. Barbara Finney <bf2@swbell.net> Subject: Name changes Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 searching for ancestors of Joseph Hinds who first appeared in 1732 in Morris County, NJ, USA. Brigham Young Uni putting all their books on line and one of these books gave me a new clue. looking for a Mary Hinds of Bucks County, Pa, whom I believe to be an aunt. According to the book, her name was originally Hynde. Her father, Richard Hynde, was from Lancaster, UK. Does this seem probable or even likely? Richard was a Quaker but I would not think that this is material.