The London Family History Centre of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) has recently acquired a mass of records of Quaker births, marriages and deaths over 150 years up until 1837 (when we believe civil registration began). A talk on this comprehensive slice of Friends' history will be given at the Centre at 64-68 Exhibition Road (across from the Science Museum in London) at 2pm on 19 August. Giving the talk will be Elder Inskip of the church. He told us 'we have 300 films of the records - that’s four drawers' worth, thousands of records which have been inherited from the National Archive.' He is willing to give tailored talks about them to any Quaker meeting.
Any reader going along to his talk might consider writing us a story on this period of our history.

Labels: archiving, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, history, Mormons