New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records at UofMass-Amherst to be Digitized this Year & Access Soon After

Word of a new resource for genealogists as been spotted.

University of Massachusetts Amherst has released information that it will begin digitizing New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Records that are in its collection -- 787 bound volumes. The records span from 1633 to 2018.

The current estimate is that the digitization, which begins this month, is expected to be completed near the end of Summer 2023. The Internet Archive scan center, part of the Boston Library's Library for the Commonwealth program, will perform the digitization. When completed the digitized records will be available on the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives and Research Center (SCUA)'s digital repository Credo and through the collaborative Massachusetts digital portal, Digital Commonwealth, of which SCUA is a member.

There is a finding aid created in 1997 that has been digitized which is quite detailed, even pointing out other places where other Quaker records are located such as for Maine, New York and Rhode Island. Only those records in the UofMass collection will be digitized in this project.

See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE