Yes, the Quakers kept very meticulous records, and you will consider yourself
blessed if your ancestors were Quakers and the records still survive. There
were some Friends (Quakers) in Georgia, and many of those moved down from the
Carolinas. You can try checking a copy of Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American
Quaker Genealogy for them, but Hinshaw did not include every meeting. And it
is essential to read the introduction and understand the abbrevations and
terminology of Hinshaw's abstracts, as some terms have different meanings. The
nearest major source of help for you would be the Friends Historical Collection
at Guilford College:
http://www.guilford.edu/library/index.cfm?ID=110000880
This Guilford College FHC page also has several helpful links, including a
listing of monthly meetings (the business meetings which handled marriages, and
recorded births and deaths and other matters before the congregation):
http://www.guilford.edu/library/index.cfm?ID=110000900&subID=140#rese...
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If you find that you can trace yourself back to the Quaker Carver family of
Bladen County, NC, let me know. My husband descends from that group. The
Quaker meeting minutes are missing for that county, but other records have filled
in some of the gaps. Mary Carver married Charles Benbow, my husband's
ancestor.
Katherine D. Benbow
(Mrs. John M. Benbow)
Historian for the Charles Benbow Family
http://www.charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com