Exploring American Quaker Records
June 21‐26, 2020, at La Roche
University, Pittsburgh, PA
Co‐Coordinators: Steven W.
Morrison and Annette Burke Lyttle
This course explores American
Quakers from the inside and out. While few in number Quakers left a mountain of
records.
Explore original records now available online and
learn where they reside. Work with unique finding aids for records still
in repositories. Grasp how radical it was for women to
play an equal role in a religion and its record keeping. Discover how
Quakers views on slavery and the military, their
historical origins, and migration patterns within the US can all help you
track down your elusive ancestor. Dive into unique
Quaker migrations with several case studies. Leave the course with a
monster bibliography of Quaker records in print or
online. If you have colonial ancestors from New England, the Mid‐
Atlantic, or the Carolinas you may have a Quaker
hiding in your family tree. Come find em!
MONDAY
9 AM Profile of a Quaker Finding a Friend in
Colonial America (Morrison)
10:45 AM History of Quakerism Testimonies and
Beliefs (Lyttle)
1 PM Simply Amazing US Quaker Records Online
(Morrison)
2:45 PM Quaker Womens Meetings and their Records
(Lyttle)
TUESDAY
9 AM Finding Yearly Meeting Records Quaker
Archives in the US and Canada (Morrison)
10:45 AM Quaker Records at the Family History
Library and Other Quaker Archives (Lyttle)
1 PM Using Hinshaw and other Finding Aids to locate
original Quaker Records (Morrison)
2:45 PM Ye Best Books for Quaker Research (Morrison)
WEDNESDAY
9 AM Class Mini‐Presentations Your Quaker Brick
Wall Ancestor (Lyttle and Morrison)
10:45 AM Mapping Quaker Meetings Tracking American
Quaker Migrations (Morrison)
1 PM Quakers at Peace and during Conflict (Morrison)
2:45 PM New England Quaker Records (Lyttle)
THURSDAY
9 AM Quakers on the Move Three Friendly Migrations
(Morrison)
10:45 AM Slavery, Quakers & the Underground Railroad
(Lyttle)
1 PM Southern Quakers to the Midwest An Unexpected
Exodus (Morrison)
2:45 PM Digging Deeper Into Quaker Sufferings and
Removals (Morrison)
FRIDAY
9 AM Following a Quaker Family New
Jersey to Iowa the Long Way Around (Lyttle)
10:45 AM Was Isaac Perkins/Parkins really
a Quaker? (Morrison)
SEE COURSE DETAILS AND REGISTER AT:
www.GRIPitt.org/Courses
