U.S., Quaker Periodicals, 1828-1929

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Periodicals, 1828-1929 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Original data: Quaker Serials. The Quaker Collection. Haverford College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

About U.S., Quaker Periodicals, 1828-1929

This database contains digitized volumes of more than 60 Quaker publications, including some foreign-language periodicals. Names have been indexed from a variety of articles including births, marriage notices, obituaries, officers, missionaries, committee members, names of people who have moved, and other references to members of the Society of Friends.

The periodicals in this collection include the following:


  • Burritt’s Citizen of the World - 1855 - 1867
  • Der Freund - 1921 - 1925
  • Essayist and Friend’s Review - 1893 - 1893
  • Friend’s Fellowship Papers - 1907 - 1923
  • Friends Missionary Advocate - 1885-1924
  • Friends Monthly Magazine - 1829 - 1831
  • Friends Oriental News - 1909 - 1934
  • Friends’ Chronicle - 1905 - 1907
  • Friends’ Expositor - 1887 - 1891
  • Friends’ Miscellany - 1831-1845
  • Gospel Expositor - 1883 - 1884
  • Gospel Minister – 1921 - 1924
  • Journal of the Friends Historical Society - 1901-1929
  • L’Echo des Amis - 1922 - 1942
  • L’Equippe - 1917
  • Miscellaneous Repository - 1827 - 1836
  • Neuwerk - 1919-1924
  • Our Homes, Near and Far - 1887 - 1890; 1895
  • Our Missions - 1894 - 1917
  • Present Day Papers (Haverford) - 1914 - 1915
  • Present Day Papers (London) - 1898 - 1902
  • Quaker History - 1906 - 1923
  • Quakeriana -1894 - 1896
  • Reconstruction - 1918 - 1920
  • Scattered Seeds - 1869 - 1925
  • South African Friend - 1907 - 1916
  • The African’s Friend - 1886 - 1898
  • The American Friend -1867 - 1922
  • The Australian Friend - 1887 - 1923
  • The Bond of Brotherhood - 1867
  • The Canadian Friend - 1905 - 1925
  • The Central Friend - 1909 - 1913
  • The Children’s Friend - 1866 - 1874
  • The Christian Inquirer - 1826 - 1828
  • The Christian Worker – 1871-1894
  • The Evangelical Friend - 1905-1914
  • The Friend (New York) - 1866 - 1868
  • The Friend or Advocate of Truth - 1828-1832
  • The Friends Herald - 1921 - 1928
  • The Friends Intelligencer -1838 - 1839
  • The Friends Messenger - 1904 - 1927
  • The Friends Minister - 1913 - 1920
  • The Iowa Friend - 1869 - 1897
  • The Journal -1873 - 1881
  • The Messenger of Peace - 1870 - 1919
  • The Nebraska Friend - 1899 - 1915
  • The Pacific Friend - 1908 - 1926
  • The Ploughshare - 1912 - 1920
  • The Primitive Friend - 1883 - 1885
  • The Quaker at Home and Abroad - 1905-1913
  • The Ramallah Messenger - 1903-1911
  • The Secret Miscellany - 1892-1918
  • The South African Ambassador - 1916 - 1920
  • The Southern Friend - 1864-1866
  • The Tract Repository – 1877 - 1896
  • The United Friend – 1894-1897
  • The Western Friend – 1847-1849
  • The Young Quaker – 1922 – 1925
  • Western Friend – 1879-1890
  • Western Work – 1897 – 1912
  • Young Friends Review – 1886-1906